[Biblical-languages] Apostrophe / Coronis

Peter_Constable at sil.org Peter_Constable at sil.org
Sat May 3 17:05:29 EDT 2003


Peter Kirk wrote:

> I notice you use 0027 on
> your website, and it is called APOSTROPHE in the Unicode standard, but in
> that document the "preferred character for apostrophe" is 2019. So which
> apostrophe is an apostrophe is an apostrophe?

The character 0027 is a kludge from the eras of the typewriter and ASCII
encoding -- if those technologies had been skipped and we had gone from
movable-type presses to Unicode, there would only be 2019.



- Peter


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