On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 12:16 AM Leo Broukhis <[email protected]> wrote:
> I agree that conflating apostrophes and quotes is a source of > problems, however, existence of the MODIFIER LETTER [same glyph as > used for English contractions] in Unicode is a coincidence which > should not have an effect on usage of apostrophes in English. Coincidence or not, the Unicode Consortium is not going to allocate a new code-point for the English apostrophe as long as MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE exists. Any change is pretty unlikely, but changing to an existing character is vastly more likely then creating a new one.
