* Abigail <abig...@abigail.nl> [2005-10-17 19:45]: > If you want to send to something that looks curly, send me a > PDF or an image. If you want to indicate you're contracting two > words, use a apostrophe. And let *me* decide whether I want > them straight or curly.
Meanwhile everyone is using apostrophes as straight quote marks. This would have been sane if Unicode had conceded the overloaded meaning of U+0027 and defined a separate apostrophe character distinct from U+2019. As I said, the one hateful aspect about it. Of course, that new apostrophe codepoint would show up just as mangled in non-Unicode-aware apps as the curly quotes do. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
