From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
To: Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com>
Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Getting Emacs to play nice with Hunspell and apostrophes
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 00:59:21 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP_d_8W1ZBN_D_2fW0zt+QjhqKOX3f-nPE12rEPrhMCuA9miBA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a99oipit.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com>
On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 12:43 AM, Robert Thorpe
<rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com> wrote:
> Nikolai Weibull <now@disu.se> writes:
>> “isn’t”
>
> In Britain and Ireland we generally use "isn't", notice there's no angle
> on the apostrophe. The one you're using "’" is the Unicode RIGHT
> QUOTATION MARK. So, to Emacs you are closing quotes around "isn" and
> putting a "t" straight after that.
>
> As far as I know, if you want to use Unicode that would be "isnʼt" which
> is MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE. Have a look with C-u C-x =. I don't
> know if using that will work though.
The Unicode tables say:
0027 ' APOSTROPHE
[…]
• 2019 ’ is preferred for apostrophe
2019 ’ RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
= single comma quotation mark
• this is the preferred character to use for apostrophe
02BC ʼ MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE
= apostrophe
• glottal stop, glottalization, ejective
• many languages use this as a letter of their alphabets
• used as a tone marker in Bodo, Dogri, and Maithili
• 2019 ’ is the preferred character for a punctuation apostrophe
In English, the apostrophe is neither a glottal stop mark, nor a
letter, nor a tone marker, so 02BC does not apply. 2019 is the correct
code, although it is unfortunate that it is overloaded with a closing
single quote.
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Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-07 15:39 Getting Emacs to play nice with Hunspell and apostrophes Nikolai Weibull
2014-06-07 17:43 ` Robert Thorpe
2014-06-07 17:59 ` Yuri Khan [this message]
2014-06-07 18:18 ` Nikolai Weibull
2014-06-07 17:53 ` Sharon Kimble
2014-06-07 18:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-07 18:28 ` Nikolai Weibull
2014-06-07 18:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-07 19:59 ` Nikolai Weibull
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2014-06-11 0:04 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-06-11 5:23 ` Nikolai Weibull
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2014-06-11 14:24 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-06-11 15:03 ` Nikolai Weibull
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2014-06-11 15:20 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-06-11 16:57 ` Teemu Likonen
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2014-06-11 21:32 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-06-12 5:43 ` Yuri Khan
2014-06-12 12:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-12 13:36 ` Nikolai Weibull
2014-06-12 14:48 ` Stefan Monnier
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2014-06-14 1:49 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-06-14 5:45 ` Yuri Khan
[not found] ` <mailman.3627.1402724759.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-06-14 11:14 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-06-14 14:51 ` Yuri Khan
2014-06-14 15:26 ` Teemu Likonen
2014-06-17 1:42 ` Garreau, Alexandre
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2014-06-14 16:13 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-06-16 15:35 ` Joost Kremers
2014-06-17 2:21 ` Garreau, Alexandre
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2014-06-17 2:41 ` Rusi
2014-06-17 3:05 ` Rusi
2014-06-17 1:46 ` Garreau, Alexandre
2014-06-15 2:48 ` Sergio Pokrovskij
2014-06-17 1:30 ` Garreau, Alexandre
2014-06-12 16:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2014-06-14 1:35 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-06-14 2:38 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-06-14 7:11 ` Yuri Khan
[not found] ` <mailman.3630.1402729917.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-06-14 11:20 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-06-17 2:12 ` Rusi
2014-06-17 2:33 ` Garreau, Alexandre
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