Re: New xml:id draft, same old URI from François Yergeau on 2004-11-05 (public-xml-core-wg@w3.org from November 2004)

From: François Yergeau <francois@yergeau.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 22:54:25 -0500
To: Richard Tobin <richard@inf.ed.ac.uk>
Cc: Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM>, public-xml-core-wg@w3.org
Message-id: <418AF971.6060108@yergeau.com>

Richard Tobin a écrit :
> A minor point: the draft uses &#8217; (x2019) for apostrophes.  That
> is the closing single quote.  Apostrophes should be &#700; (x2bc) or
> the ascii apostrophe character.

Not so.  Extract from the Unicode database:

0027 APOSTROPHE
 = APOSTROPHE-QUOTE
 = APL quote
 * neutral (vertical) glyph with mixed usage
 * 2019 is preferred for apostrophe
 x (modifier letter apostrophe - 02BC)

2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
 = SINGLE COMMA QUOTATION MARK
 * this is the preferred character to use for apostrophe
 x (apostrophe - 0027)
 x (modifier letter apostrophe - 02BC)

02BC is a modifier letter, used by many languages as a letter of their 
alphabets.

So use either the ASCII ' or 2019 ’ (preferred), but not 02BC ʼ.

-- 
François

Received on Friday, 5 November 2004 03:55:10 UTC