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What? Apostrophe is U+0027. The distinctions created by these extra Unicode characters will never be faithfully reflected in most text, because English speaker
by jimrandomh 11y ago
What? Apostrophe is U+0027. The distinctions created by these extra Unicode characters will never be faithfully reflected in most text, because English speakers only have one key to type them with and don't care.
- Avitas 11y agoThe author's point directly conflicts with your suggestion of using U+0027. The author correctly states that the apostrophe when used inside a contracted English word should be treated as a modifier letter. There is a Unicode apostrophe character set aside and labelled as exactly this--U+02BC. The author's point makes sense to me. I agree and my initial thought is that the correct thing to do is recommend U+02BC be the apostrophe. This is something for the future. It won't be faithfully reflected in text for years or decades.
- mark-r 11y agoThere's plenty of existing software that already takes those keyboard keys and converts them to a different character based on context. Changing which character is used for the conversion shouldn't be a big deal.