From: Andreas Prilop (andreasprilopwww@trashmail.net)
Date: Fri Jun 27 2008 - 09:55:14 CDT
On Thu, 26 Jun 2008, Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
> The use or misuse of ASCII ' instead of U+2018, U+2019, U+02BC,
> U+02BE, U+05F3 for that matter, and a bunch of other ones besides,
> is well-known and well-documented.
Yes, okay - when we restrict ourselves to US-ASCII or perhaps
ISO-8859-1.
But my original posting was about text that also contains such
exotic letters as "w with circumflex" and "y with circumflex".
With such letters, it makes no sense to use the ersatz U+0027
for U+2019.
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