Steve Bennett wrote:
> So, apostrophe (U+0027) -> curved right single quote (U+2019): yes, probably.
> The other way around...probably not, unless that U+2019 exists on any 
> keyboards.
> 
> Hyphen-minus (U+002D) -> em dash (U+2014): I would say no. If you
> search for "clock-work", you probably don't want to match a sentence
> like "He was building a clock—work that is never easy—at the time."
> (contrived, sure)
> 
> Just saying you probably don't want the full range of "lookalikes" -
> the left side of each mapping should be a keyboard character, and the
> right side should be semantically equivalent, unless commonly used
> incorrectly.

Unless you cut and paste a term containing a fancy character from 
another window, but the page uses the plain character...

-- brion

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