[Biblical-languages] Apostrophe / Coronis

Brent Hudson abrenthudson at yahoo.ca
Sat May 3 12:43:01 EDT 2003


Since the coronis marks elision (krasis) it should look and behave like a breathing mark.  If the character 1FBD is coronis, I would think that it should be an overstriking character.  Practically, would we not just use the smooth breathing mark combinations for a vowel with coronis?  

Brent Hudson


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On 5/2/2003 at 8:36 PM Peter Kirk wrote:

>OK, not the Coronis then... but which apostrophe? I notice you use 0027 on
>your website, and it is called APOSTROPHE in the Unicode standard, but in
>that document the "preferred character for apostrophe" is 2019. So which
>apostrophe is an apostrophe is an apostrophe?
>
>And what is a Coronis, anyone?
>
>Peter Kirk
>peter.r.kirk at ntlworld.com
>http://web.onetel.net.uk/~peterkirk/
> 
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: biblical-languages-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:biblical-
>> languages-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of P. T. Rourke
>> Sent: 02 May 2003 17:54
>> To: biblical-languages at lists.ibiblio.org
>> Subject: [Biblical-languages] Apostrophe / Coronis
>> 
>> An apostrophe is an apostrophe is an apostrophe, regardless of
>> language.  The creator of a font should make his|her Latin-1 apostrophe
>> and his Greek alphabet consistent so the apostrophe can be used, as
>> intended, with Greek as well as Latin/English/etc.
>> 
>> The coronis is another character entirely, and is not the Greek
>apostrophe.
>> 
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