Re: Significant whitespace (was Re: Blogging sucks)

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On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 05:37:43PM +0200, Juerd wrote:

> Also, the apostrophe is not a single quote. You send us RIGHT SINGLE
> QUOTATION MARK (U+2019), in places where you should use APOSTROPHE
> (U+0027).

U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK

Notes:
 • this is the preferred character to use for apostrophe
 
(From the Unicode spec)

> Next time, please get things right (or straight) before you send the
> wrong thing and belittle your audience's settings.

Zounds.

U+0027 is sufficiently overloaded with a large number of historical 
meanings that it's preferable to use a more precise Unicode code point 
wherever possible.
-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxx.xxxx.xxx

• Juerd 16:37 on 17 Oct 2005
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