[Bug 28650] New: named character reference needed for curved apostrophe in natural-language English content

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 ' 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
’ or ’ 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
' 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.

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Received on Saturday, 16 May 2015 23:25:47 UTC