Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world · 2 months agomullenweg, founder of wordpress, claims that the apostrophe we type is actually a prime mark and talks about how he always manually inputs U+2019 insteadpxlmo.comvideomessage-square40fedilinkarrow-up142arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up136arrow-down1videomullenweg, founder of wordpress, claims that the apostrophe we type is actually a prime mark and talks about how he always manually inputs U+2019 insteadpxlmo.comAatube@kbin.melroy.org to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square40fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarehedgehog@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months agoThe unicode standard has stated that U+2019 is the preferred character for apostrophes since at least the late 90s. And it’s not like using a curved apostrophe in typesetting was novel even then. as opposed to U+2019 being posthumously appropriated U+0027 was also an ASCII character. The death of ASCII as a common format is the only one I can think of… what death are you referring to here?
The unicode standard has stated that U+2019 is the preferred character for apostrophes since at least the late 90s.
And it’s not like using a curved apostrophe in typesetting was novel even then.
U+0027 was also an ASCII character. The death of ASCII as a common format is the only one I can think of… what death are you referring to here?
Ah… TIL, thanks.