A proposed solution for descriptions (was: Re: ISO 639 - New
item approved - N'Ko)
John Cowan
cowan at ccil.org
Sun Jun 11 09:02:09 CEST 2006
Doug Ewell scripsit:
> Originally I was opposed to adding new Description values to solve this
> problem, but Mark's and Richard's arguments have thoroughly convinced me
> that this is necessary, and isn't a slippery slope that would lead to
> dozens of Description strings for every subtag. I stand corrected, and
> no, I don't mind being called a flip-flopper.
I have followed the same path as you and come to almost the same
conclusion except in one point.
I think that there is no reason to have both ' and ߣ, because
both of them are punctuation apostrophes. ߣ exists because it
is unambiguously a right-hand quotation mark, but for normal use
of apostrophes we need no such ambiguity, and using ' directly
suffices. Therefore, I propose that only N'Ko be present, not
N’Ko, and likewise for all other words using punctuation
apostrophes.
I do agree that Ge'ez and Gwich'in and the others that require
*letter* apostrophes should exist in dual form, with ' and with
the proper Unicode characters. Michael's notes tell us which
are which.
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