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Can't say I agree with this; Unicode may be ubiquitous for a number of spheres, but there are plenty of legacy systems that have trouble with things like "educa
by mchannon 15y ago
Can't say I agree with this; Unicode may be ubiquitous for a number of spheres, but there are plenty of legacy systems that have trouble with things like "educated" apostrophes and ligatures like fi or æ. Your "can’t" after getting washed through a few different systems may end up coming out as my "can&2019t" or similar garbage. Non-US users run into this far more frequently.
A better workaround would be for apple to use a little bit of on-the-spot processing and display the educated version but send the dumbed-down version, much like it would substitute a ligature in rastered text.
I can&2019t think of a less strict grammatical environment than text messaging.
- alanh 15y agoI understand your concern. - Agree sending dumb quotes over SMS if it really does still matter in the real world is best - Do not believe it would be worth keeping denying the feature request altogether just because some legacy systems barf on unicode is smart. Especially if it’s an optional feature. - Also note that nothing stops you from pasting in or manually entering (e.g. tap-and-hold on normal apostrophe key) any number of non-ASCII characters in the SMS or other contexts.