Netither, it is Geresh, U+05F3, although iit is common to use the ASCII
apostrophe in stead. It is used to modify Gimel, Zayin and Tsadi to sound
like a soft g, zh and ch.
Jony
On Mon, 24 May 2004 17:15:06 -0700 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.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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