At 12:46 -0400 2002-08-20, John Cowan wrote: >Doug Ewell scripsit: > >> As enticing as it sounds, disunifying it would not solve the problem; it >> would simply move it from the text boundaries category to the legacy >> data conversion category. > >Somewhat off the topic: > >What I've never understood is why Unicode is so adamant that the ' of >English words is a punctuation mark, not a letter; why when disambiguating >U+0027, English apostrophe is to be mapped to U+2019 and not U+02BC.
U+02BC will have a place in the alphabet and affect sorting in languages like Hawai'ian. U+2019 doesn't. The former is used as a letter; the latter is used as a mark of punctuation. You knew that. -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
