Re: Blueberry/Unicode/XML

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

A few weeks ago, Mark Hughes wrote:

  > But the
  > apostrophe is an essential character in Klingon, so you can't currently
  > write Klingon XML markup.  Given that there are more Klingon users and
  > programmers than some of the omitted scripts (there's even a Klingon
  > programming language, var'aq), this is obviously a dire flaw in XML.

I blew this off at the time, but of course Klingon native-language
markup *is* supported.  You simply must use U+02BC MODIFIER LETTER
APOSTROPHE, which looks like the ASCII apostrophe in its curly
form, but is explicitly a letter.

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