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What bothers me about Unicode isn't that apostrophe (U+0027) is overloaded by having two semantic meanings ("apostrophe" or "single straight quote"), but that t
by jiggunjer 9y ago
What bothers me about Unicode isn't that apostrophe (U+0027) is overloaded by having two semantic meanings ("apostrophe" or "single straight quote"), but that they exacerbate the confusion by recommending to overload "right single quote" (U+2019) to also mean apostrophe.
We now have two characters for apostrophe and extra ambiguity for processing correct right single quotes. Great job not breaking historical documents Unicode.
- Loic 9y agoAnd now, imagine that your own name has an apostrophe in it. Like my family name. I can tell you, I crashed many databases and in 90% of the cases where people need to find again my name in a database, it is ending up with requesting my address because each time a different character is put by the clerk doing the data entry and they cannot match my name. Even state level authorities are bad, really bad, at it.