Re: Apostrophe, and DIN keyboard

From: Andreas Prilop <prilop4321_at_trashmail.net>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 14:42:58 +0200 (CEST)

On Mon, 13 Aug 2012, Otto Stolz wrote:

>> http://www.machsmit.de/media/mainteaser/header-ichwillserleben.png
>> http://www.machsmit.de/kampagne/printmedien.php
>> show what the braindead German DIN keyboard layout has done to
>> the apostrophe (’): Killed by the acute accent (´).
>
> Andreas’ example does not present any evidence that
> an acute accent is involved. It could as well be a
> real U+2019 apostrophe, rendered in a slanted, sanserif
> font. As the text is presented in PNG, i. e. grafic,
> format, you really cannot tell the difference.

You are typographically challenged. People who understand fonts
better than you will recognize Helvetica Condensed Black Oblique.
 http://store1.adobe.com/type/browser/gifs/HLVQ/C_HLVQ-70019100.GIF
 http://www.fonts.com/font/adobe/helvetica/condensed-black-oblique

It is really sad that even academic persons today cannot see
the difference between an apostrophe (’) and an acute accent (´).
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