Apostrophe (was Re: Names)
Cary Karp
ck at nic.museum
Tue Mar 24 02:15:31 CET 2009
> Look back at the email archives; this character is used
> in many languages, in many surnames.
Swedish keyboards have separate keys for the U+0027 APOSTROPHE and the
U+00B4 ACUTE ACCENT. Many users do not distinguish between the two marks
and regularly hit the U+00B4 key when typing either. There is no
realistic expectation that o’connor.tld would be entered correctly on
the first attempt, and although a clever user might retry using the
other alternative on their keyboard, when that also failed, I doubt that
anyone would puzzle out the reason for the repeated error to be failure
to recognize the U+2019.
Unless the Swedish keyboard and its users are apostrophically challenged
to an unusual degree, whose interests are being served by protocol
support for this sort of confusion?
/Cary
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