On 6/16/06, Steve Summit <scs(a)eskimo.com> wrote:
Last month, Sabine Cretella was having trouble with
double
apostrophes in page and category titles, since they were of
course treated as wiki markup for italicizing. A workaround of
using '' was suggested and seems to work. Platonides
suggested using Unicode single quotes (U+2019) instead of
apostrophes, and I meant to suggest using Unicode apostrophes
(U+02BC). Phil Boswell suggested using an invisible "breaker" or
"joiner" between the two apostrophes, such as U+200D Zero-width
Joiner.
Allow me to correct some terminology:
U+2019 is not the "Unicode single quote", It is "right single quotation
mark"
U+02BC is not the "Unicode apostrophe". It is "modifier letter
apostrophe".
A "modifier letter" is very specifically not a punctuation mark. It is
a letter and
is marked as such in the Unicode database. For instance if you double-click
on a word, this character should always be treated as part of the word. It is an
exotic letter used for example in the Hawaiian language. Unicode specifically
says "U+2019 is the preferred character for a punctuation apostrophe".
This is a basic misunderstanding which I see repeatedly so it's obviously
poorly understood, even by technical people.
And there's at least one more possibility: today I
happened to
notice that there's also a Unicode double apostrophe character,
U+02EE. I'm not sure, but it might be tailor-made for Neopolitan.
Again, there are multiple Unicode double apostrophe characters,
but this one is also not punctuation but a letter: "modifier letter double
apostrophe".
Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail)
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