From a typographic point of view, acute and grave only SIMULATE the real
characters (typsetters opening and closing single quotes). These characters
are (in most faces) upright in a way that is similar to the apostrophe. The
optical illusion of "slant" is because they are composed of a dot with a
serif.
Note: the two characters are *rotated* 180 degrees with respect to each
other, not mirrored. The acute and grave have been used in the past because
of computing's terminal/teletype heritage, where "curly quotes" were not
available and we all made due with what was available.
I.e.: use option B and let formatting software handle the conversion to
(visibly curly) U+2018 and U+2019 when it is appropriate to do so (that is,
not in my source code and shell scripts!!)
That's my two cents.
Addison
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-----Original Message-----
From: Figge, Donald [mailto:Donald.Figge@usa.xerox.com]
Sent: lundi 2 août 1999 12:39
To: Unicode List
Subject: RE: Latin-1's apostrophe, grave accent, acute accent
-----Original Message-----
From: Markus Kuhn [mailto:Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk]
Sent: Sunday, August 01, 1999 4:41 AM
To: Unicode List
Subject: Latin-1's apostrophe, grave accent, acute accent
Markus,
From a typographic point of view, I think that solution 'B' is better by
far. In terms of acute and grave being symmetrical, that works fine when
you're dealing with upright fonts. It does not work well with italic fonts.
Don
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