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to add to the confusion: ' PRIME (U+2032) " DOUBLE PRIME aka inch mark (U+2033) have their own codepoints http://practicaltypography.com/foot-and-inch-marks
by mxfh 9y ago
to add to the confusion:
' PRIME (U+2032)
" DOUBLE PRIME aka inch mark (U+2033)
have their own codepoints
http://practicaltypography.com/foot-and-inch-marks.html http://practicaltypography.com/foot-and-inch-marks.html
which describes implications for typesetting coordinates and other things:
118° 19′ 43.5″
118° 19’ 43.5” wrong (curly quotes, although it renders identical in some fonts)
118° 19' 43.5" right
- mark-r 9y agoThose should be added to the document, with a note that they are NOT quotes!
- mxfh 9y agoI doubt this will ever be updated, since it's reference for a very specific, 20 year old, code interpretation related proposal und not meant for type setting. But for anything related to contemporary typesetting on the web I recommend Practical Typography and especially the Type Composition chapter: http://practicaltypography.com/type-composition.html#links http://practicaltypography.com/type-composition.html#links Including notes on quotes and apostrophes: http://practicaltypography.com/straight-and-curly-quotes.html http://practicaltypography.com/straight-and-curly-quotes.htm... http://practicaltypography.com/apostrophes.html http://practicaltypography.com/apostrophes.html
- alanh 9y agoHmm. I was going to link the classic https://alistapart.com/article/emen https://alistapart.com/article/emen (and I guess I just did), but I noticed a disclaimer at the top pointing out that it “is now obsolete.” And how! It proclaims that not enough text editors support UTF-8 yet, which thankfully hasn’t been true in ages
- timb07 9y agoAnd further confusion: An ʻokina (U+02BB, as found in "Hawaiʻi") is neither an apostrophe nor a left quotation mark. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CA%BBOkina https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CA%BBOkina