On Thu, May 12, 2005, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote:
The proper
fix for this situation is to use the real apostrophe
character (U+2019 right single quotation mark, UTF-8 0xE28099) for
apostrophes and continue using ' for wiki markup.
Unicode RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK is not an apostrophe, any more
than Unicode SWUNG DASH is a tilde. U+0027 APOSTROPHE is the proper
apostrophe character.
I wonder what version of the Unicode standard you are referring to.
Both the U+0027 and the U+2019 comments mention that (I quote) U+2019 is
the preferred character to use for apostrophe.
What *might* help is if we could use the '
HTML entity. IE
doesn't support it, but perhaps MediaWiki could translate it after
it's done with the '' => <i> transformation.
' is the ASCII apostrophe, not the apostrophe used in latin
languages, which is ’.
Regards,
--
Sam.