Deborah asked: > I've seen recommendations to represent the Hawaiian glottal (ʻokina) in > Unicode as U+02BB. This seems odd since this character is bidi neutral;
Actually, it isn't. See UnicodeData.txt: 02BB;MODIFIER LETTER TURNED COMMA;Lm;0;L;;;;;N;;;;; 02BC;MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE;Lm;0;L;;;;;N;;;;; (Those are the entries from UnicodeData-3.2.0d4.txt, but these characters have had stable properties since Unicode 1.1.5.) Both of these are reasonably common *letters* in various orthographies. And they have an "L" bidi directionality, which matches their use predominantly with the Latin script. > it seems like you would get strange results if you mixed Hawaiian and > Arabic, for example. U+2018 is also not right since it's punctuation, > and you get incorrect double-click behavior, among other things. U+2018 is clearly not the correct answer. --Ken > > Any comments? > > Deborah Goldsmith > Manager, Fonts & Language Kits > Apple Computer, Inc. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >
