Explain then, your email of yesterday where you explain that you said

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Hmmm, what I see are superscript 3, 2 & 1 in that order, followed by a
prime.  What I now think you meant is :

Instead of a “tick” mark for an apostrophe, I¹d like a mark like you see
here: ’

I know of no way of accomplishing that using CSS, but server-side
processing might be an (off-list/topic) option.
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On 10/11/15, 11:49 AM, "Philip Taylor" <p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk> wrote:

>
>
>Chris Williams wrote:
>
>> My larger point was, tread carefully here.  Test a lot.  Unexpected
>> results (as Jeff sees in his simple email to this list) are likely.
>
>If one has to tread carefully for characters as commonplace and
>straightforward as curly quotation marks, what hope has one if one wants
>(as I frequently do) to use Vietnamese characters, polytonic Greek
>characters, IPA characters and so on ?  I really think that, in the 21st
>century, one should be able to rely on the receiving client displaying
>the the more common elements of the Unicode repertoire correctly.   If I
>were to want to include Cherokee, Blackfoot, Dene, Cree or Naskapi, for
>example, then I would do well to ensure that my intended recipient(s)
>had support for such languages.  But this should not have to be the case
>for mainstream languages, let alone basic punctuation.
>
>Philip Taylor

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