Contextual rule for MODIFIER LETTER PRIME?

Michael Everson everson at evertype.com
Wed Jul 15 20:57:11 CEST 2009


Patrik,

"Romanized Cyrillic" is Latin. Not Cyrillic. The modifier letter prime  
is not used with Cyrillic.

On 15 Jul 2009, at 13:58, Patrik Fältström wrote:

> On 5 nov 2008, at 03.15, Mark Davis wrote:
>
>> For example those
>> for MODIFIER LETTER PRIME (used in romanized Cyrillic as well as  
>> Greek) which can be a final characters in words, but the rules  
>> require to be followed by a Hebrew letter, when "-" should also be  
>> allowed.
>
>
> Is what you say that the existing rules:
>
>> Appendix A.6.  MODIFIER LETTER PRIME
>>   Code point:
>>      U+02B9
>>   Overview:
>>      Permitted only in contexts in which GREEK LOWER NUMERAL SIGN,
>>      U+0375, is permitted.  GREEK NUMERAL SIGN, U+0374, and the Lower
>>      Numeral Sign (U+0375) are indicators for numeric use of  
>> letters in
>>      older Greek writing systems.  U+02B9 is relevant because
>>      normalization maps U+0374 into it.
>>   Lookup:
>>      False
>>   Rule Set:
>>      True;
>>      For All Characters:
>>         If Script(cp) .ne.  Greek Then False;
>>      End For;
>
> ...should be changed so that script cyrillic, or '-' as adjacent  
> character makes this ok?
>
> Can you please provide a new rule that works?
>
>   Patrik
>
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