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

Sorry, I miswrote: yes, U+01C2 ǂ is the right one.

Mark


On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 2:46 PM Arthur Reutenauer <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 02:29:50PM +0200, Mark Davis ☕️ wrote:
> > Revisiting this because I happened on
> > =/Kx'au//'ein
> > which caused a spreadsheet to hiccough (not prepared for initial ASCII
> =)..
> > It would be far better to use ≠ rather than =/.
>
>   Since ≠ (U+2260) is neither latin-1 nor ASCII, is there any advantage
> to refraining from using the real character (U+01C2 ǂ)?
>
> > I would really like to see all the ASCII hacks removed, and replaced with
> > either the correct character or an escaped version thereof. BTW, as for
> > 02BC, in CLDR we ended up mapping that to 2019, because nobody is
> > consistent about the distinction. (The danger of having two identical
> > characters, not separated by script.)
>
>   That may be wise; there is definitely a grey area with many ambiguous
> cases.  Around the time of that discussion I researched some of the 100+
> language names from ISO 639-3 containing apostrophe-like characters, and
> it was sometimes really hard to decide between U+02BC and U+2019, in
> particular.  (It was however really instructive to investigate all these
> language names.)
>
>         Best,
>
>                 Arthur
>

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