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[PLUG] My Meeting Font Rant
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At the meeting I mentioned that due to a system upgrade[1],
under X[2], the single quote (aka. apostrophe, character 39
(0x27), (')) had changed appearance.
Where it used to have angle to it (and appeared complimentary
to (`) (character 96 (0x60)), it now appears vertical.
I then ranted on about how I needed to jack up one side of my
monitor in order to make my m4 macros look less sickly[3],
as m4 used to look like
\ / \ |
XXX and now looks like XXX
anyway....
A) it does effect all of the fonts.
B) this was done in the name of UNICODEization.
where ASCII (x3.4) defined character 39 as:
apostrophe, closing single quotation mark; acute accent
Unicode (ISO 10646) says:
neutral (vertical) glyph having mixed usage
Unicode 2.1 even includes:
For historical reasons, U+0027 is a particularly
overloaded character. In ASCII it is used to represent a
punctuation mark (such as right single quotation mark, left
single quotation mark, apostrophe punctuation, vertical line,
or prime) or a modifier letter (such as apostrophe modifier or
acute accent.) (Punctuation marks generally break words;
modifier letters generally are considered part of a word.) In
many systems it is always represented as a straight vertical
line and can never represent a curly apostrophe or right
quotation mark...
is all
--jeff
[1] NetBSD 1.6
[2] XFree86 4.2
[3] it is all coming back to you now. you remember...
See also:
ASCII - http://czyborra.com/charsets/iso646.html
ISO 8859 - http://czyborra.com/charsets/iso8859.html
Unicode - http://czyborra.com/unicode/standard.html
Quote marks - http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html
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