ISO 639 - New item approved - N'Ko

Mark Davis mark.davis at icu-project.org
Thu Jun 8 16:58:37 CEST 2006


I have a preference for either:

a) always use the generic "yellow-label" apostrophe (0027), or
b) always use the correct mark (which may be either 2019 or 02BC, depending
on what the intended meaning is).

Mark

On 6/8/06, Addison Phillips <addison at yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
>
> > > Gwich'in should be changed to Gwich&#x02BC;in, surely.
> >
> > Then this should be discussed here.  Please, list members, if
> > you have a
> > view on this, speak up within the next two weeks.
>
> No, darn it--use the process. If you think this in error, fill in a
> registration form and submit it. Then we have a two week clock to debate its
> approval. The Description field's only stability guarantee is that the
> meaning won't change (Section 3.4, item 2). Fixing the punctuation
> certainly would not violate that.
>
> I agree with Richard that we should have both U+0027 and U+2019 and, if I
> had to choose just one for the registry, which I don't, would pick U+0027.
>
> Addison
>
> Addison Phillips
> Internationalization Architect - Yahoo! Inc.
>
> Internationalization is an architecture.
> It is not a feature.
>
>
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