A proposed solution for descriptions (was: Re: ISO 639 - New item approved - N'Ko)

[John Cowan]

Michael Everson scripsit:

> It is a matter of fallback representation, not 
> semantics. "Provençal" and "Provencal" are 
> supposed to mean the same thing but one is 
> preferred. The same goes for typographic 
> punctuation, and PLEASE don't fight over this.

I should like to know whom it helps to include "’" in a
plain-text document.  We cannot use the actual character for technical
IETF reasons; we can use the ASCII equivalent '.  No information
is lost by using it, whereas there are minimal pairs (though
not in English) involving ç and c.

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