Unicode Mail List Archive: RE: Exemplar Characters (original) (raw)

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> CLDR uses the correct orientation for apostrophes. It also contains
> mapping information so that someone wanting to use or allow fallback
> characters such as the ASCII apostrophe can do so. So {c’h} would be
> used. (I assume that is the punctuation character, not the
> letter modifier.)

How does one decide? I don't think "c’h" is a contraction here.

> > There are similar examples in other languages, like {’n} or {'n} for
> > which there also exists a combined character in Unicode...
> This case I'm not so sure about. While there is a combined character in
> Unicode, I don't know that we should recommend its usage over
> the sequence.

No, I would not. For Afrikaans "’n" is a 'contraction' of "en", and for
Dutch "’t" is a 'contraction' of "het". Both should be encoded using
an apostrophe character (and only ’n has a precomposed character,
solely for compatibility reasons). But I would recommend using
the ij ligature (ij) for Dutch, due to the casing properties.

/kent k

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