- From: Richard Tobin <richard@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 14:55:15 +0000 (GMT)
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From: Richard Tobin <richard> Subject: Re: New xml:id draft, same old URI To: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com> In-Reply-To: John Cowan's message of Fri, 5 Nov 2004 07:42:11 -0500 Organization: just say no X-Mailer: Ream 5.1.51-richard-mac Cc: public-xml-core-wg@w3.org > I'll have to look at Unicode 2.0, but I think you misread it. U+02BC > has *always* been a letter. Unicode 2.0 says (copied from book): 02BC MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE = apostrophe . glottal stop, glottalization, ejective; elision . spacing clone of Greek Smooth breathing mark . this is the preferred character for apostrophe [...] > 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. But they are semantically distinct, and Unicode represents characters ("smallest components of written language that have semantic value"), not glyphs. I remain surprised that they have been confounded in more recent versions of Unicode. -- Richard
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