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Standardize elision apostrophe character across Greek corpora? #2870

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@chrisdrymon

Working through some elision-related fixes recently, I noticed the corpus uses several different Unicode codepoints for the elision apostrophe:

  • U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
  • U+02BC MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE
  • U+1FBD GREEK KORONIS
  • U+1FBF GREEK PSILI
  • U+0027 APOSTROPHE (ASCII)

In First1KGreek the dominant choice is U+2019 (~318k occurrences vs ~70k each for U+02BC/U+1FBF). In Perseus canonical-greekLit it's reversed — U+02BC dominates (~261k vs ~43k for U+2019).

Would there be any interest in standardizing an option across repos? I could help create corpus-wide normalization PR's if a direction is chosen.

Cross-posted to PerseusDL/canonical-greekLit#1879.

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