Re: Significant whitespace (was Re: Blogging sucks)

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From: A. Pagaltzis
Subject: Re: Significant whitespace (was Re: Blogging sucks)
Date: 18:55 on 17 Oct 2005
* Abigail <abigail@xxxxxxx.xx> [2005-10-17 19:45]:
> If you want to send to something that looks curly, send me a
> PDF or an image. If you want to indicate you're contracting two
> words, use a apostrophe. And let *me* decide whether I want
> them straight or curly.

Meanwhile everyone is using apostrophes as straight quote marks.

This would have been sane if Unicode had conceded the overloaded
meaning of U+0027 and defined a separate apostrophe character
distinct from U+2019.

As I said, the one hateful aspect about it.

Of course, that new apostrophe codepoint would show up just as
mangled in non-Unicode-aware apps as the curly quotes do.

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>;
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