Various non-rendering diacritics

[tuurma]

‘bdʾ

‘ Left Single Quotation Mark codepoint 8216 V6: 252 cases

ʾ Modifier Letter Right Half Ring codepoint 702 V6: 12 cases

http://clas-lgpn4.classics.ox.ac.uk:8080/exist/apps/lgpn-editor/editor.xhtml?id=Pb8cb54f6-bfe9-4f46-9cf8-0c1f9b1e7d3f

ʿbdʾ

ʿ Modifier Letter Left Half Ring V6: 8 cases

http://clas-lgpn4.classics.ox.ac.uk:8080/exist/apps/lgpn-editor/editor.xhtml?id=P4b45ea7f-ef3d-4c86-ac89-7c94d15d7f67

ʼsydwrʼ

ʼ codepoint 700 Modifier Letter Apostrophe V6: 7 occurrences

http://clas-lgpn4.classics.ox.ac.uk:8080/exist/apps/lgpn-editor/editor.xhtml?id=Pc536150d-2901-47b4-9841-d982e8b982f6

[tuurma]

There are also cases in place names,

like

ʼ codepoint 700 Modifier Letter Apostrophe 3 cases

Madāʼin Ṣāliḥ, SRMDʼ, Qaṣr Abī Samrāʼ

ʾ Modifier Letter Right Half Ring codepoint 702

ʾzmyn. (syr variant of Azmīn)

[tuurma]

Converted following Michael's reommendation

For consistency, and on the assumption that it would also make things easier for typesetting, it would be best to replace “modifier letter left half ring” with ”left single quotation mark”, and “modifier letter right half ring” with “right single quotation mark”, and “modifier letter apostrophe” with “right single quotation mark”.

[tuurma]

declare namespace tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0";

for $i in collection('/db/apps/lgpn-data/data/persons/V6')//tei:persName[contains(., 'ʿ') or contains(., 'ʾ') or contains(., 'ʼ')]

let $n := $i
let $update := translate($n, 'ʿʾʼ','‘’’')

return 
   ( 

(:    update value $i with $update,:)
    $n || ' --- ' || $update)