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>>>>>> On Sat, 02 Sep 2000 18:36:42 -0600, Tom Christiansen <tchrist@chth<SNIP> >>> Mapping an apostrophe to a vertical line is just *wrong*, almost >>> unforgiveably so. > > An apostrophe certainly is *not* a verticle prime. That's broken. >Citing Markus Kuhn. > Unicode 2.1 explicitly says that U+2019 is the preferred > punctuation apostrophe And on that day when Perl and all the rest of my standard tools begin to emit and process nothing but Unicode, on *that* day should we heed this. Clearly, we're not there yet. --tom