Re: apostrophe vs. modifier letter apostrophe

From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Tue Mar 26 2002 - 11:28:50 EST


On 03/25/2002 06:46:55 PM Asmus Freytag wrote:

>The preferred (right) quotation mark (and apostrophe) is 2019, btw. 0027
>should probably not be used for anything other than
>a) sins of the past (reader beware)
>b) computer syntax
>For all other uses, one should use the proper character in Unicode.

I quite agree. The challenge for me will be convincing the linguists out
there to do the work needed to disambiguate 0x27 when mapping it to
Unicode.

- Peter

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