On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Markus Kuhn wrote:
> Details and background information (also for forwarding to others who
> routinely make the same mistake):
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/apostrophe.html
One quibble: use of 0x60 as opening single quotation mark was not some
random whim of font designers, but was actually specified by earlier
versions of the ASCII standard. For example, X3.4-1977 (which is what I
happen to have on hand) says that 0x60 is Opening Single Quotation Mark,
with Grave Accent only a secondary meaning. Yes, this usage is obsolete,
but it was legitimate in its day.
Henry Spencer
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