Re: 21.5.31 Mule and the β symbol (input method?)
Julian Bradfield writes:
On 2012-05-24, Stephen J. Turnbull <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>
wrote:
> You don't want that if you can avoid it (that's a RIGHT SINGLE
> QUOTATION MARK, U+2019). You want ΚΌ, if your fonts have it (that's
> MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE U+02BC, which is preferred to the ASCII
> apostrophe).
No.
U+2019 is the preferred character for all normal uses of apostrophe.
The modifier letter, as the name suggests, is for use in the phonetic
symbol for ejectives, where it modifies the preceding letter. (I doubt
anybody uses it, though - I certainly don't.)
See Unicode Standard section 6.2 on apostrophes.
Uh, which version? Version 2.0 clearly states of U+02BC "This is the
preferred character for apostrophe" while it doesn't mention use of
U+2019 as an apostrophe. I find U+02BC more plausible than U+2019 for
use as apostrophe. The apostrophe is not a quotation mark (a
delimiter), it is an ellipsis (indicating that content has been
removed), and should have its own character. The only real excuse I
can find for using U+2019 as apostrophe is that nobody uses the others
and it looks like an apostrophe, and that's kind of weak, you know.
I don't question that maybe they've changed this in later versions,
but then again, maybe they've changed it back since the version you're
referencing! ;-)
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