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Since there's only one key on the keyboard that represents both single-quote and apostrophe, software has to guess which one you mean from context. I don't thin
by brianberns 11y ago
Since there's only one key on the keyboard that represents both single-quote and apostrophe, software has to guess which one you mean from context. I don't think there's anything Unicode alone can do to fix this underlying problem.
- dragonwriter 11y ago> Since there's only one key on the keyboard that represents both single-quote and apostrophe, software has to guess which one you mean from context. That's not at all true; while "guess from context" is one option, using modifier keys is also an option; there's a lot of software that does this for things which don't have distinct keys. Certainly seen this used for different widths of spaces, and different widths of dashes, even though the keyboard has only the space bar and the hyphen.
- brianberns 11y agoOnly a small fraction of users know how (and are willing) to use modifier keys like that. I don't think it's practical to assume they'll change their behavior in this case.
- userbinator 11y agosadly, even the use of the shift key seems beyond the ability of most users. just witness all the posts in online forums that look like this. Fortunately, it does seem to have changed over the years (although I'm not sure to what extent things like auto-correct/auto-capitalisation contribute), so perhaps in the far future when keyboard layouts evolve enough, everyone will be using Unicode apostrophes and single quotes...