- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 07:42:11 -0500
- To: Richard Tobin <richard@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Cc: public-xml-core-wg@w3.org
Richard Tobin scripsit: > > > Not so. Extract from the Unicode database: > > This must have changed since the printed edition (2.0) that I was using. > It says that 2BC is the preferred character for apostrophe. I'll have to look at Unicode 2.0, but I think you misread it. U+02BC has *always* been a letter. > What is the current preferred character for closing single quotation > mark? 2019 used to be listed as this. U+2019 is both apostrophe and closing single quotation mark (of the "high-9" variety; not all languages use this as a closing mark); the two are not typographically distinct. U+02BC is different because it is a letter in languages that require it, and so can be used in identifiers and such. -- John Cowan www.ccil.org/~cowan www.reutershealth.com jcowan@reutershealth.com We want more school houses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more constant work and less crime; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures. --Samuel Gompers
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