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- Date: Sat, 16 May 2015 23:25:45 +0000
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https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=28650 Bug ID: 28650 Summary: named character reference needed for curved apostrophe in natural-language English content Product: HTML WG Version: unspecified Hardware: PC OS: Linux Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: P2 Component: CR HTML5 spec Assignee: robin@w3.org Reporter: Nick_Levinson@yahoo.com QA Contact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org CC: public-html-admin@w3.org The apostrophe produced by &apos; being straight, it's not appropriate for English text when quotation marks are curved. Meanwhile, HTML5 specifies the use of the straight apostrophe for a technical purpose. While we can use &rsquo; or &#0146; for English text, they are not either memorable in context or named semantically for the usage. I'd like HTML5 to provide a curved apostrophe with a named character reference that would be semantically relevant. I propose adding &aposc;. I propose no change to the existing &apos; or to the specifying of the straight apostrophe in HTML5 for a certain programming purpose. Thus, this proposal would add a choice and remove nothing, thus breaking nothing. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
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