On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 10:50:57AM -0700, Brion Vibber wrote:
Maybe, maybe not.
Since titles containing "''" cannot be reliably round-tripped,
they need to be made invalid. Unfortunately somebody's pulled out
a language that claims to need it, so we may be stuck with such
breakage.
Was it authoritatively decided, then, that no other rendition of that
character was acceptable than two sequential ASCII apostrophes?
Cheers,
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
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