[Biblical-languages] Apostrophe / Coronis
Peter Kirk
peter.r.kirk at ntlworld.com
Mon May 5 14:39:40 EDT 2003
Thank you, Peter, for your messages confirming the understanding of these
issues which I had come to.
In SIL Galatia - Unicode.cct, when an apostrophe occurs before an upper case
vowel (in the legacy encoding), the combination is converted to the
appropriate Unicode precombined breathing and vowel code, i.e. the
apostrophe is understood as a smooth breathing. This is correct. The
breathing might be followed by an acute or grave accent and an upper case
vowel, although this would not have been the recommended use of the legacy
encoding, so ideally all breathing - accent - upper case vowel combinations
should be converted to the Unicode precombined code. The only other context
in which the apostrophe glyph is used in connected Greek text is as an
apostrophe; in this case it should always be preceded by a consonant and
followed by white space. (The following space might be omitted although this
is actually an error; in this case the apostrophe will normally be followed
by a lower case vowel.) An isolated glyph could be an apostrophe or a
breathing being discussed in isolation - the conversion routine has no way
of knowing. I would conclude that it would be safe to convert all
apostrophes not followed by a capital vowel or an accent to 2019.
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 Peter_Constable at sil.org
> Sent: 03 May 2003 22:26
> To: Biblical Languages
> Cc: sil_fonts at sil.org
> Subject: RE: [Biblical-languages] Apostrophe / Coronis
>
>
> 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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