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Andreas J Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de> writes: > I have inspected the "Final proof for Latin alphabet No. 9" which is > available online at > http://www.indigo.ie/egt/standards/iso8859/8859-15-en.pdf with acrobat > reader and with ghostview. The U+0027 character there in section 6.2 > definitely is a vertical bar on my screen. Maybe my screen is infected? I completely agree with you about what Unicode says. I just think that what Unicode says is dumb and annoying in this specific department. I can think of various things they could have done to maintain compatibility with the X fonts and the way those characters were used in some places. I'm sure they had reasons for what they did that were important, and that they were aware that no choice would make everyone happy. I'm one of the people made extremely *unhappy* by the choice that they arrived at. Oh well, I guess you can't make a global character encoding without breaking a few glyphs. A few things are fairly sacred to me; "TeX is almost always right" is one of them. *wry grin* Ah well... eventually, we'll all use Unicode and can have real quote marks distinguished from accent marks and prime marks, like TeX has been able to do for years. :) -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>Thread Previous | Thread Next