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

Michael Everson wrote:

> Those two are ejectives, so the should use 02BC.

and Arthur Reutenauer replied:

> Actually, according to Wikipedia, the apostrophe-like character
> indicates glottalisation after a click, and ejectiveness (is that a
> word?) after other consonants, but I agree, the character definitely
> is U+02BC in all cases.

Mark and others, do you agree? Can we recommend spellings to 639-3/RA 
for these two languages using this character? Remember we are NOT trying 
to solve the apostrophe problem for all language names, let alone for 
running text in these languages and others (such as Polynesian 
languages).

What about the click characters in my original post of February 27? ( ǀ 
ǁ ǂ ǃ ) Can we agree on the names using these characters as I posted?

What about ASCII fallbacks? We will need to give the RA something to put 
in their Latin-1–restricted files. They are currently using ( | || ! ) 
which seem OK, and ( ‡ ) which is awful and not even Latin-1. Can we 
recommend that they use ( | || |= ! ) plus U+0027 for the 
glottal-ejective-whatever apostrophe?

And finally, can we agree, after the RA makes these changes, NOT to use 
the ASCII fallbacks in the Registry, but only the names with the real 
clicks and apostrophe letters? I realize this might be the most 
controversial part.

--
Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, US | ewellic.org

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