<Peter_Constable at sil dot org> forwarded: > There's a very short piece in the Monday, September 02, 2002 San > Jose Mercury News entitled, "Hawaiian language advocates applaud new > Mac operating system". Highlights and URL: > > HONOLULU (AP) - Apple Computer's latest operating system doesn't > say "aloha" on startup, but it still speaks Hawaiian. > ... > The kahako is the little dash appearing over vowels, a diacritical mark > signifying a stressed vowel sound. The okina, or glottal stop, signals a > halting of breath between vowel sounds. ...
Does everyone (Apple included) agree that the kahakō is U+0304 COMBINING MACRON and the ʻokina is U+02BB MODIFIER LETTER TURNED COMMA? OT but still Unicode-related: I note with dismay that the San Jose Mercury News (or perhaps bayarea.com) still thinks it's a cool idea to use two grave accents (U+0060) for a left double quotation mark and two apostrophes (U+0027) for a right double quotation mark. See <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html> for an explanation of why this is bad. The original poster did correct these two hacks to real ASCII quotation marks (U+0022). -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California
