[Biblical-languages] Apostrophe / Coronis

Peter_Constable at sil.org Peter_Constable at sil.org
Sat May 3 17:25:56 EDT 2003


Peter Kirk wrote:

> I think in the light of this, and particularly the paper by Yannis
> Haralambous (URL as below), we can safely conclude that U+2019
> should be used for the apostrophe in Greek texts, rather than any of
> the alternatives I mentioned earlier (0027, 02BC, 1FBD, 1FBF).

Yes.



> This implies that there is a need to correct some of the supporting
> files (though not the font itself) in Galatia SIL Greek Unicode Fonts (
> http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/silgrkuni/):
>
> The conversion table SILGreek.map should convert apostrophe to
> right_single_quotation_mark (2019), not modifier_letter_apostrophe
(02BC).
>
> The conversion table SIL Galatia ? Unicode.cct should convert
> apostrophe to 2019, not 1FBD.

I'm not sure what the source character in the legacy SIL Galatia encoding
was used for, and the correct mapping would depend on that. But Peter's
suggestion here is probably correct.


- Peter


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