Ar an 20� l� de m� 3, scr�obh Juliusz Chroboczek :
> MK> We now have clear and unambiguous standards in that question,
>
> Er? What ``clear and unambiguous standards''? The Unicode Standard
> merely mentions that U+0027 is an ambiguous character.
Yeah, Juliusz has a point. There's nothing about the word "Apostrophe"
that says anything either way about curliness. As the Oxford English
Dictionary puts it; " 2. The sign (') used to indicate the omission of
a letter or letters, as in o'er, thro', can't; and as a sign of the
modern English genitive or possessive case, as in boy's, boys', men's,
conscience', Moses'."
It hould also be remembered that in a seven-bit environment where ` is
*never* used as a grave accent (that is, most of the Unix world -),
using it as a left quote preserves information (i.e. "this opens a
quotation") that would be lost if ' were substituted universally as a
single quote. So arguing for such usage is silly where access to
U+2018 and U+2019 isn't available.
--
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