[projectaon] Re: Grand Master comment period
- From: "Paulius Stepanas" <pstepanas@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 01:45:55 +1000
Jonathan Blake wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Oskar Liljeblad <oskar@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Is it correct to use acute accent (´) and not apostrophe (') for words
> > like "children's"?
>
> I believe what you're seeing is actually the right single quotation mark
> character:
>
> http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2019/index.htm
>
> Different fonts will render it differently.
When typeset for printing (or Web rendering), the closing single
quote character is often used in place of the (straight) apostrophe
character, and it does look better, I think.
However, in unformatted text (such as XML or a .TXT file), the
straight apostrophe should really be used. Angled quotes (both
single and double) in text files tend to be confusing rather
than useful.
Note that Microsoft Word incorrectly replaces an apostrophe with
a left-curved single quote in words such as: 'cause -- it should
always be the right-curved version. (The easiest way to work
around this is to type two apostrophes and delete the first one.)
Paulius
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