it and every other backtick in the dataset I am dealing with is a mistyped quotation mark.
Exhibit 1 Aisha`s Song but is supposed to be referring to http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1950067/ On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 6:20 PM, Michael Kay <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 7 Apr 2014, at 17:07, Ihe Onwuka <[email protected]> wrote: > >> backticks match the \w regex class which does seem at odds with the >> definition of that class. > > > You might call it a backtick, and misuse it as a kind of quotation mark, but > its proper Unicode name and intended semantics is "grave accent", and the \w > category includes all non-spacing diacriticals. > > Michael Kay > Saxonica > _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk
