Re: Apostrophes, quotation marks, keyboards and typography

From: Michael Everson ([email protected])
Date: Wed Jul 21 1999 - 07:07:29 EDT

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Ar 17:54 -0700 1999-07-19, scr�obh Kenneth Whistler:

>Remember, on the early typewriters the
>"l" key doubled for a "1" and the "O" key doubled for a "0" as well--
>a practice that carried over into people's typing habits on electric
>typewriters and even computers long after the key (and character code)
>distinctions had been clearly made.

Yes, and OCR has given us back this richness today. :-)

The paper on the apostrophe is coming along. Possibly it will be ready
tommorrow.

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