On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 20:13:41 +0100 (CET) Marcel Schneider <[email protected]> wrote:
> > U+2E31 WORD SEPARATOR MIDDLE DOT > > U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT > These seem to me identical to U+00B7 and U+2022 respectively. Perhaps > weʼre here faced with two examples of what Asmus referred to as > “incorrectly encoded more than once” (talking of “Many other "simple" > marks: lines, circles, triangles, hooks, and squares, or groups of > them”). I was talking about what "fuels the misperception that Unicode somehow encodes symbols based on a single conventional usage". > > However, I still don't know whether to spell the word «fiʼ» or > > «fi’». I've only seen it in print. > That depends on the spelling convention. That's the problem. I'm not aware of any literature in the language of the Chtaptisk Fithp in any Terran script - there's more Punic in Plautus's Poenulus. > If the apostrophe and the > single comma quote are disunified, then U+02BC is used to spell the > word «fiʼ» (your first option). You might also wish to ask the > publisher, but Iʼm unsure whether he will appreciate to have to join > publicly one or the other spelling current. You obviously haven't read the story's discussion of whether the fithp would honour a peace treaty! I think the general understanding of the difference is very limited. For instance, the English wikipedia article about Klingon says, "The apostrophe, denoting the glottal stop, is considered a letter, not a punctuation mark", and then goes on to encode it as U+2019! The French wikipedia also uses U+2019. Richard.
