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wtf mullenweg, you're a and the founder of #wordpress for chrissakes

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (18 children)

Mullenweg says he always manually inputs U+2019 for the apostrophe character because "the apostrophe key on the keyboard is actually the prime mark". In the video, I search the character up, and it’s the right curly single quote, not the apostrophe. This is as infuriating as people saying "octopi", except they also have to go to an extra mile just to make this mistake. If you want me to elaborate folder, zoom in on the apostrophe in this reply.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (12 children)

From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_single_quotation_mark

The Unicode character ’ (U+2019 right single quotation mark) is used for both a typographic apostrophe and a single right (closing) quotation mark.[1] This is due to the many fonts and character sets (such as CP1252) that unified the characters into a single code point, and the difficulty of software distinguishing which character is intended by a user's typing.[2] There are arguments that the typographic apostrophe should be a different code point, U+02BC modifier letter apostrophe.[3]

In other words, U+2019 is the typographic apostrophe character. It’s also the right single quote character. There are people who think that the typographic apostrophe character should be something else (and having read their arguments, I agree), but in practice, it isn’t, and certainly wasn’t back in the 90s / early 2000s.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (11 children)

He is going to extra lengths just to get it, and even then, it is an apostrophe like how "octopi" is now accepted as a plural form of "octopus". The straight apostrophe also actually has a unicode name of "apostrophe", and thus that was its original intention, as opposed to U+2019 being posthumously appropriated.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I think it is a little different in German grammar, since it starts with lower quotation marks, but I learned curved quotation marks in the 90s as being the proper way of writing, long before computer and its little straight ones became mainstream. Pretty sure in professional writing you still see it the original way.

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