The issue has been discussed at length in other threads in recent time, leading to very vocal and differing opinions. I don't pretend to remember the exact outcome for fear of remembering it incorrectly. But three issue was not cut-and-dry.
--Greg On Apr 15, 2011 1:29 PM, "David Haslam" <dfh...@googlemail.com> wrote: > They'd better be, in the light of > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe#Miscellaneous_uses_in_other_languages > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe#Miscellaneous_uses_in_other_languages > > If not, then somone goofed. > > One example given in this page: > > # In the new Uzbek Latin alphabet adopted in 2000, the apostrophe serves as > a diacritical mark to distinguish different phonemes written with the same > letter: it differentiates o' (corresponding to Cyrillic ў) from o, and g' > (Cyrillic ғ) from g. This avoids the use of special characters, allowing > Uzbek to be typed with ease in ordinary ASCII on any Latin keyboard. In > addition, a postvocalic apostrophe in Uzbek represents the glottal stop > phoneme derived from Arabic hamzah or ‘ayn, replacing Cyrillic ъ. > > > David > > -- > View this message in context: http://sword-dev.350566.n4.nabble.com/apostrophes-in-locales-tp3452523p3452714.html > Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
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