[RDA-L] Spelling of Qur'an

2013-04-15 Thread Adam L. Schiff
I see that the LC/NACO authority records for Koran have been changed to the form Qurʼan, with an alif. This is the correct Arabic transliteration of the word, but when we were doing the examples for RDA we were told by the JSC to use an apostrophe rather than an alif for all of our examples.

Re: [RDA-L] Spelling of Qur'an

2013-04-15 Thread Gene Fieg
Does it display the same? And are the unicodes the same? On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Adam L. Schiff asch...@u.washington.eduwrote: I see that the LC/NACO authority records for Koran have been changed to the form Qurʼan, with an alif. This is the correct Arabic transliteration of the

Re: [RDA-L] Spelling of Qur'an

2013-04-15 Thread Adam L. Schiff
No they are different characters and in some fonts they do not display the same (even in OCLC you can see that they are different characters). If you search RDA in the RDA toolkit using the form found in the authority file (copy and paste), you get no results. If you use an apostrophe

Re: [RDA-L] Spelling of Qur'an

2013-04-15 Thread Gene Fieg
I double checked the ALA file in Connexion client. and found that Ayin or Ayn, is represented by a reverse comma, much like rough breathing in Greek. The aleph is the one with the comma. On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Adam L. Schiff asch...@u.washington.eduwrote: No they are different

Re: [RDA-L] Spelling of Qur'an

2013-04-15 Thread Dana Van Meter
: Re: [RDA-L] Spelling of Qur'an No they are different characters and in some fonts they do not display the same (even in OCLC you can see that they are different characters). If you search RDA in the RDA toolkit using the form found in the authority file (copy and paste), you get no results

Re: [RDA-L] Spelling of Qur'an

2013-04-15 Thread M. E.
Dana Van Meter vanme...@ias.edu wrote: This may not be at all relevant here, but I have been noticing for at least a year now that I have difficulty searching anything with an apostrophe in LC's authority file. If I copy a heading which contains an apostrophe from the body of a record in

Re: [RDA-L] Spelling of Qur'an

2013-04-15 Thread Gene Fieg
: Monday, April 15, 2013 2:36 PM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Spelling of Qur'an No they are different characters and in some fonts they do not display the same (even in OCLC you can see that they are different characters). If you search RDA in the RDA toolkit using