Re: Click letters in ISO 639-3 and Registry (long)
Michael Everson <[email protected]>
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I didn’t check the code point for 02BB. The comments I made about the relative size of these things with regard to the ordinary quotation marks remain valid. Michael > On 28 Feb 2018, at 18:26, John Cowan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 7:36 AM, Michael Everson <[email protected]> wrote: > > There is a big issue with 02BC, actually. In real life it’s not possible to make use of it with it being identical in shape to 2019. In editions of Alice, The Wizard of Oz, Harry Potter, and The Hobbit in Hawaiian, and of Alice in other Polynesian languages, the glottal 02BC has to exist side by side with smart single and double quotes in reported speech. It is intolerably uncomfortable for native speakers to read such texts if 02BC is 100% the same size of the quotation marks. > > Note that Hawaiian uses 02BB, the high-six shape, for its glottal stop, not 02BC, the high-nine shape. This is also true in Samoan since 2012; other Polynesian languages accept either shape or leave the letter out altogether. The IPA characters ʕ ʔ are graphically speaking the left and right letter apostrophes, exaggerated for legibility; their phonetic interpretations reflect the use of the apostrophes for transliteration of Arabic ayin and alef. > > -- > John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan [email protected] > As we all know, civil libertarians are not the friskiest group around -- > comes from forever being on the qui vive for the sound of jack-booted > fascism coming down the pike. --Molly Ivins > _______________________________________________ > Ietf-languages mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages _______________________________________________ Ietf-languages mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages