Re: Welsh orthography in Unicode

From: Leo Broukhis (leob@mailcom.com)
Date: Thu Jun 26 2008 - 19:45:55 CDT

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    I wonder if GMail is at play here. I was going to ask the same thing.

    Leo

    On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 5:14 PM, David Starner <prosfilaes@gmail.com> wrote:
    > On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Antonio MARTINS-Tuvalkin
    > <antonio@tuvalkin.web.pt> wrote:
    >> On 2008.06.26, 18:23, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
    >> <asmodai@in-nomine.org> quoted and asked:
    >>
    >>>> Then they should have used U+2019 (Œ) instead of U+0027 (').
    >>>
    >>> Then let me ask the obvious: why?
    >>
    >> Obvious answer: Because U+0027 (') is an ambiguous kludge with typically
    >> ugly rendering and because the unambiguous U+2019 (Œ) is by now (at last)
    >> "universally" supported.
    >
    > Universally supported in that I'm getting OE instead of an apostrophe here?



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