Re: Click letters in ISO 639-3 and Registry (long)

Michael Everson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.languages
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I am still unpacking and will attend to this when I can. Please be patient.

> On 1 Mar 2018, at 17:05, John Cowan <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 4:22 AM, Michael Everson <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Please ask a more complete question so I can understand what you are trying to say.
> 
> Doug is, if I understand him correctly, asking this:
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> In the process of changing the various language names with clicks in them from their ASCII fallbacks (/, //, !) to proper Unicode ( ǀ,  ǁ, !), he has found two names which contain both a click letter and an ASCII apostrophe fallback.  He is proposing to change these two apostrophe fallbacks to proper Unicode apostrophes as well, so that these names do not have to be changed twice, once now and once when the apostrophes are fixed.
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> Does this proposal meet with your approval, O king, live forever?
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> (Irrelevant font-maker's note:  The ǃ retroflex click should properly be a ǀ dental click with a retroflex dot below: using the shape of ! is a corruption.)
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> -- 
> John Cowan          http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan        [email protected]
> LEAR: Dost thou call me fool, boy?
> FOOL: All thy other titles thou hast given away:
> That thou wast born with.
> 

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