On Sat, 31 Dec 2016 02:09:12 +0100 (CET) Marcel Schneider wrote: > On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 22:17:12 +0000, Richard Wordingham wrote:
> > You obviously haven't read the story's discussion of whether the > > fithp would honour a peace treaty! > I havenʼt read nor watched Star Trek (nor Star Wars). It's in a different universe, restricted to one book, namely Footfall. I brought up Klingon because it seemed a good place to use U+02BC in a fictitious alien or foreign language, and there is a lot of Klingon around. For a lot of these fictitious languages, the realisation used by English speakers is as a neutral vowel rather than as a glottal stop, so the case for using U+02BC feels less compelling. > > 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! > Iʼm unable to find the quoted sentence in the cited article. Did you look in the article about Klingon, namely https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon_language , or in the article about Klingons, namely https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon ? The quote is from the former. The English wikipedia 'house style' is given at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Tt-Klingon ; this specifies the use of U+2019. I should have spotted that yesterday. Richard.
