Re: (Mis?)using quote as apostrophe (was: Hunspell and contractions with apostrophes)

[Yuri Khan]

On Wed, 27 May 2020 at 13:05, Dmitry Alexandrov <dag@gnui.org> wrote:
> Heh.  Iʼm afraid, itʼs not merely unfortunate, itʼs totally in spite of the 
> whole spirit of Unicode, and simply silly.  Just as if it said that ” (RIGHT 
> DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK) were the preferred character for inches sign.

FWIW, the preferred character for inches is U+2033 DOUBLE PRIME. (Not
U+0022 as some say.)

> A!  _Punctuation_ apostrophe.  Whatever is it, itʼs not what we are taking 
> about here.  hunspell does not check punctuation.

Also FWIW, many English grammar guides out there call the apostrophe a
punctuation mark, whether it indicates possession or contraction.