On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:09, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) <p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk> wrote: > > I wish > I understood more about the "duplicate apostophe" problem, in order > to be able to offer a more directly relevant (and constructive) comment : > Google throws up nothing relevant.
Users type ' (U+0027) and expect the proper apostrophe (U+2019) to show up in final PDF. Knuth just replaced the character (you cannot get U+0027 in pdfTeX, except in typewriter font). In XeTeX mapping=tex-text does that, but not all users use that one, so we need to support both variants. Mojca -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex