Hi Bill, On 27.11.2019 18:55, Bill Jouris wrote:

Dear Colleagues, 

We are making good progress on the ratings.  Thank you. 

I do wonder about something.  The Hawaiian Okina (02BB) is excluded from MSR (and thus our repertoire) because of its similarity to the apostrophe (02B6).  ʻ vs ’

Yet the difference there is /larger/ than that between the Dot Above (0307) and the Acute Accent (02CA).  · vs ˊ 

Do those of you who do not consider the latter to be variants have any thoughts on that?

yes, I have some thoughts. :-) I agree that Okina and apostrophe are distinguishable (as from my point of view is dot above and acute accent). On the other hand, if Okina needs to be excluded due to similarity with apostrophe, I personally would also exclude acute accent due to similarity with apostrophe. But I guess that cannot happen as it would anger a large (and important) part of the population, including members of the IP. To summarise, I disagree with taking out some of the characters (including the middle dot used in Catalan) from MSR, but that does not make me change my opinion that dot above and acute accent are distinguishable. Cheers, Michael -- ____________________________________________________________________ | | | knipp | Knipp Medien und Kommunikation GmbH ------- Technologiepark Martin-Schmeisser-Weg 9 44227 Dortmund Germany Dipl.-Informatiker Fon: +49 231 9703-0 Fax: +49 231 9703-200 Dr. Michael Bauland SIP: Michael.Bauland@knipp.de Software Development E-mail: Michael.Bauland@knipp.de Register Court: Amtsgericht Dortmund, HRB 13728 Chief Executive Officers: Dietmar Knipp, Elmar Knipp