Comment by Aloisius
It was originally represented with an apostrophe.
It seems the apostrophe started to be inverted in Hawaiian in the 1940s.
It was originally represented with an apostrophe.
It seems the apostrophe started to be inverted in Hawaiian in the 1940s.
It's not just the shape of the glyph. An apostrophe is a punctuation mark. An ʻokina is a letter. In Unicode, U+0027 is marked "Other Punctuation". U+02BB is "Modifier Letter". This matters to software.