Re: Hebrew modifier question

[Mark E. Shoulson]

The punctuation you're after is U+05F3 HEBREW PUNCTUATION GERESH (not to 
be confused with HEBREW ACCENT GERESH at U+059C).  Everyone uses 
apostrophe because it's what's available, but that's really what the 
PUNCTUATION GERESH is.  Similarly you'll see some abbreviations with 
double-quotes (") between some letters.  That's really supposed to be 
U+04F4 HEBREW PUNCTUATION GERSHAYIM (again, not to be confused with the 
accent of the same name).

In these cases, it's being used to modify the letters to indicate 
non-Hebrew sounds.  ×× means "ch" like in "church", ×× is "j" like in 
"junk"...

~mark
Deborah Goldsmith wrote:
I'm in the process of grooming some data for the CLDR 1.1 release and 
have run into an issue with use of a modifier letter in Hebrew.

There appears to be a usage of a modifier letter or punctuation to 
annotate transcriptions of non-Hebrew words. This is appearing in the 
country and language data. Here are some examples using U+0027 
APOSTROPHE:

        AZ { "×××××××'×" }
        CL { "×'×××" }
        CZ { "××××××××× ××'×××" }
        GS { "××× ×'×××'×× ××××××× ×××× ×××××××' ××××××××" }
        cs { "×'×××" }
I have two questions:
1. Is this considered punctuation or a modifier letter? I.e., would 
the proper character come from U+2xxx (punctuation) or U+02xx 
(modifier letters)?

2. What is its proper typographic shape? Is it really a straight mark 
like U+0027, or does it look like U+2019, U+2018, or something else?

I'd appreciate any information anyone has on this mark.
Thanks,
Deborah Goldsmith
Internationalization, Unicode liaison
Apple Computer, Inc.
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