On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 20:55:39 -0500 "Mark E. Shoulson via Unicode" <unicode@unicode.org> wrote:
> On 1/28/19 2:31 AM, Mark Davis ☕️ via Unicode wrote: > > > > But the question is how important those are in daily life. I'm not > > sure why the double-click selection behavior is so much more of a > > problem for Ancient Greek users than it is for the somewhat larger > > community of English users. Word selection is not normally as > > important an operation as line break, which does work as expected. > > This is a good point. Bottom line is that word-selection, at least, > is not going to be _exactly_ right. Oh, and for another example, > note that Esperanto also regularly (in poetry, anyway) uses a > word-final apostrophe (of some kind) to indicate elision of the final > -o of a nominative singular noun, or the -a of the article "la". > What shall we say to Esperantists who can't correctly the third word > in «al la mond’ eterne militanta / Ĝi promesas sanktan harmonion»? I > guess "Suck it up and deal with it." And that may indeed be the > answer. Who's going to punish them for using U+02BC? I found some documentation of an Ancient Greek spell-checker for OpenOffice. It listed problem with the apostrophe as one of its shortcomings. Richard.
