On 11/18/07, Yann Forget yann@forget-me.net wrote:
Actually, the proper French apostrophe should be ' (Unicode : U2019, Code HTML : ’) not ' On the French Wikisource, we systematically replace ' with ' in all articles and titles with bots (keeping redirects). So actually, ''' should be ''' in proper French typography.
Ah, I wondered about that - the two articles I looked at both had that weird apostrophe rather than the straight one.
So, so much for this special l''''idée''' case, eh? :) (Well, not really, obviously other languages when speaking about French will probably still want to use it, and there are probably other languages in similar situations...)
The issue is that ' is not in the standard French keyboard, and it does not exist in Latin1 (like œ for oe). There is also the problem with
I didn't know that. I actually use a hybrid French/Dvorak keyboard that I invented myself, I guess it would be more authentic with the correct apostrophe then...hmm.
Steve