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> It's as useful to the discussion as getting on your case for using the U+2019 quotation mark instead of an apostrophe in your contraction of "they’re" and "it
by hk__2 6y ago
> It's as useful to the discussion as getting on your case for using the U+2019 quotation mark instead of an apostrophe in your contraction of "they’re" and "it’s" in your comment.
U+2019 is the preferred character to use for apostrophe according to the Unicode standard [1][2].
To stay on the point: I agree it’s annoying to be annoyed by such small, irrelevant details. I wish I could unlearn my {grammar,typo}-naziness most of the time.
[1]: https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2019/index.htm https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2019/index.htm
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe#Unicode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe#Unicode