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

> Let's focus on the apostrophe-like characters in the languages that have
> click letters in their name. There are only two such languages in the
> Registry:
> 
> Juǀʼhoan (which has an alternative name, Juǀʼhoansi)
> 
> ǂKxʼauǁʼein

  Actually, it’s the same language :-)  Subtag [ktz].  Ethnologue has
the latter a dialect of the former, but in the registry we just have a
deprecated entry for ǂKxʼauǁʼein [aue], pointing to [ktz].

> Notice that in these names, the apostrophe-like characters do not fall at
> the beginning or end of the language name, where they might appear next to
> single quotation marks or other apostrophes. So we don't need to worry fir
> now about that typographical issue either.

  With the font used to display this email to me (Apple’s Monaco, I
think), the problem is rather to distinguish U+02BB and U+02BC.  They’re
just tiny floating dots, nearly identical.  Very odd.

	Best,

		Arthur

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