Andrew Dunbar wrote:
On 6/16/06, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
Platonides suggested using Unicode single quotes (U+2019) instead of apostrophes, and I meant to suggest using Unicode apostrophes (U+02BC).
Allow me to correct some terminology: U+2019 is not the "Unicode single quote", It is "right single quotation mark" U+02BC is not the "Unicode apostrophe". It is "modifier letter apostrophe".
Sure. I wasn't giving character names there (which is why I didn't capitalize them). The numeric codes made it clear which specific characters I was referring to.
A "modifier letter" is very specifically not a punctuation mark. It is a letter and is marked as such in the Unicode database. For instance if you double-click on a word, this character should always be treated as part of the word.
Aha. So what happens if you double-click on "doesn't"? :-)
And there's at least one more possibility: today I happened to notice that there's also a Unicode double apostrophe character, U+02EE. I'm not sure, but it might be tailor-made for Neopolitan.
Again, there are multiple Unicode double apostrophe characters, but this one is also not punctuation but a letter: "modifier letter double apostrophe".
Just so. And just as U+02BC Modifier Letter Apostrophe is appropriate for use in Hawaiian, there's some chance -- as I said, I'm not sure, but it's at least a possibility -- that U+02EE Modifier Letter Double Apostrophe is appropriate for use in Neapolitan.