Re: Apostrophes, quotation marks, keyboards and typography

From: John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Date: Mon Jul 19 1999 - 11:49:24 EDT

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Markus Kuhn wrote:

> Unicode declares U+02BC to be the recommended
> character that should be used as an apostrophe in words such as "isn't",

This was fixed in Unicode 2.1: that apostrophe is U+2019. The only
time U+02BC is used is in languages where ' is a *letter*.
See <http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr8.html#3.6 Apostrophe Semantics Errata>
So keyboards should only generate U+02BC when operating in
such languages; otherwise, U+2019 is the Right Thing.

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