A couple of items of interest from the Linguist List: Question asked: http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-935.html#2
Summary of responses: http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-1566.html Note: something the response does not discuss is that some of the uses of apostrophe described should be represented in Unicode as U+2019 (clear example: when used as aquotation mark), while others should be represented as U+02BC (clear example: when used in an orthography to represent glottal stop -- there may, of course, be some cases in which best practice is less clear). An interesting addendum: in recent interaction with one of my colleagues in Africa, after recommending that they use U+02BC to represent glottal stop and ejective stops, he asked if they could either have a glyph variant that is straight or else use something like U+02C8 instead. The reason given was that language workers are being trained to key data but, the success of the training has been dependent on every different keystroke corresponding to a unique shape, i.e. it wouldn't work to require different keyings for distinct functions that use the same shape -- but they use single quotation marks, so need a distinct shape for glottals / glottalisation. - Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Constable Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236, USA Tel: +1 972 708 7485 E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
