On 27/10/2003 13:34, Philippe Verdy wrote:
The proposed update to UAX#29 contains this text:
Apostrophe is another tricky case. Usually considered part of one word ("can
't", "aujourd'hui") ...
...
So in French we also have the additional word break rule:
hyphens � LatinLetterH
This case is not documented...
This new rule also fails with the original case under consideration,
aujourd'hui. But then maybe it should fail, as this is presumably a
contraction of au jour de hui. So, unless we have other cases in French
of an apostrophe followed by a consonant other than h which should not
be taken as a word break, the best simple rule is to count apostrophe as
always a words break. Or maybe a better rule (for French, not Italian)
would relate to the number of letters in the word before the apostrophe,
which is always one in the word break examples cited.
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Peter Kirk
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