Mojca Miklavec wrote: > 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.
OK, (sort of) understood. But does a Unicode-aware user /really/ type (U+0027) [APOSTROPHE] if if he/she wants (U+0219) [ RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK] other than through habit/laziness ? I can quite see an ASCII-based TeX user doing just that, but those that are capable of entering real Unicode must surely be aware of the multiplicity of apostrophe-like characters [1] available to them, and be capable of choosing the correct one, must they not ? ** Phil. -------- [1] Including, but not restricted to, APOSTROPHE, RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK, LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK, PRIME, MODIFIER LETTER PRIME, SINGLE HIGH-REVERSED-9 QUOTATION MARK, ... -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex