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Re: GNUlib unicode encoding causes smart quotes to be displayed in progr
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: GNUlib unicode encoding causes smart quotes to be displayed in program's output |
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Sat, 07 Dec 2019 14:56:31 +0100 |
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Pádraig Brady wrote:
> It’s awkward for word regex to use right quote (\u2019)
> Itʼs best to use apostrophe modifier (\u02BC)
Unicode.org recommends:
* U+2019 is the preferred character for a punctuation apostrophe,
* U+02BC is a glottal stop, used by many languages as a letter of their
alphabets.
So, we should write
L’Oréal and L’chaim with U+2019
and OʼHara, OʼConnor with U+02BC.
Bruno
Re: GNUlib unicode encoding causes smart quotes to be displayed in program's output, Paul Eggert, 2019/12/05