Aatube to Mildly Infuriating • 2 days 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.commessage-square40fedilinkarrow-up142arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up136arrow-down1playmullenweg, 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 to Mildly Infuriating • 2 days agomessage-square40fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•2 days 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.