Hi, Alex! At 2022-01-24T23:07:52+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Hi, Branden! > > My brain returned EAMBIGUOUS for the following paragraph: > > [ > \(aq Basic Latin apostrophe. Some output devices re‐ > place “'” with a right single quotation mark. > > \(oq > \(cq Opening and closing single quotation marks. Use > these for paired directional single quotes, ‘like > this’. > ] > > > What did you mean by 'a right single quotation mark'? > s/right/correct/? Or maybe s/right/closing/?
I believe Ingo Schwarze contributed the above language; he's quoting the Unicode Character Standard. $ unicode 2019 U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK UTF-8: e2 80 99 UTF-16BE: 2019 Decimal: ’ Octal: \020031 ’ Category: Pf (Punctuation, Final quote); East Asian width: A (ambiguous) Unicode block: 2000..206F; General Punctuation Bidi: ON (Other Neutrals) Calling this glyph "closing" can be misleading depending on the language. For instance, Swedish apparently uses U+201D "RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK" for both opening _and_ closing quotation marks. Things get complicated with bidirectional scripts and mirrored glyphs. I feel like the safest thing to do here is to simply use Unicode's names. What do you think? Regards, Branden
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