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["James H. Cloos Jr." <315740@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Before the changes to the Compose files can be pushed, we need to
decide on what character to use for the apostrophe in the cʼh strings.

I spent some time before the holiday researching that.

The fdo bug reports and related posts in the list archives use U+2019
RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK.

Every Breton site I found (by way of google) uses U+0027 APOSTROPHE
(aka the ASCII apostrophe).

But neither of those characters are letters.

The character U+02BC MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE probably is the most
accurate choice, from the point of view of the UCS and Unicode.  It
is a letter, not punctuation, so word break algorithms and the like
should Do The Right Thing.  Google and the like map all of U+0027,
U+02BC and U+2019 together when comparing, so web interaction should
not suffer.

On the other hand, only the libré fonts tend to have glyph support for
U+02BC (generally as a homoglyph to U+2019), the commercial fonts seem
to ignore it.

Thoughts?

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