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On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 02:39:53PM -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote:
> >> > 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.
>
> >Yea, verily that is the way for a speedy transition to Unicode :-(
> >Nay, I'm not proposing to change the quotes in pod output, that would
> >be much premature. But such an attitude virtually guarantees we will
> >all be using ASCII for many years to come.
>
> I cannot use a "vertical prime" to represent an apostrophe.
> It looks embarrassingly nasty. Contractions and possessives
> want a "raised comma", not a straight up and down mark.
>
> Since I'm writing in ASCII, I use the standard character
> for the same. It's insane that the Unicode nazis have
If this were USENET by Godwin's Extended Law I would declare this
discussion now officially void, null, empty, pointless, and closed.
> defined away an ASCII apostrophe. I've got one, and I'm
> going to use it. I'm certainly not going to be emitting
> U+2019 when I've virtually nothing that can cope with it.
>
> --tom
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