On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 16:11:12 +0000 Michael Everson via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote:
> Yes, yes. It doesn’t matter. The discussion applies to both the two > quotation marks and the two modifier letters. Actually, there is a difference. As the ʻokina doesnʹt occur at the end of a word in Hawaiian, one only strictly needs a contrast at the beginning of a word - unless Hawaiian makes significant use of the apostrophe for abbreviation. Unfortunately, U+02BB is worse than U+02BC from this perspective. Richard.