On 15 Dec 2011, at 17:18, Tobias Schoel wrote: > Hi List, > > On 15.12.2011 17:02, Jonathan Kew wrote: >> On 15 Dec 2011, at 14:30, Philip TAYLOR wrote: >> >>> I know that a number of excellent typographers inhabit this >>> list, so I would like to pick their brains if I may ? >>> >>> In "Two wide ‘weaver’s windows’, usually found on the ground floor" >>> (which could equally well be "Two wide ‘weavers’ windows’, usually >>> found on the ground floor", but I am not the author), the apostrophe >>> of "weaver’s/weavers’" is the same Unicode character as the closing >>> quotation mark of "windows’". Should it be ? >> >> Yes. > But why? They are semantically different.
Not particularly relevant. The "full stop" or "period" that ends a sentence is semantically different from the "decimal point" that punctuates numbers. That doesn't mean we have separate character codes for them. From a character-encoding point of view, they're the same character; they just happen to have multiple uses. JK -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
