[wp-hackers] WordPress Uses "Wrong" Apostrophe in Blog Title

Matt Patenaude MattPat at mattpat.net
Sun Jul 8 04:06:17 GMT 2007


True, but by that logic, we should also all go back to using  
monospace fonts and double-spacing after the end of each sentence.  
Aesthetics and semantics are nice sometimes.

-Matt

On Jul 8, 2007, at 12:01 AM, Matt wrote:

> On 7/7/07, Rob Miller <r at robm.me.uk> wrote:
>>
>> What? It's not up to the font at all, ' is fundamentally and
>> semantically different to ', and the former should be used as an
>> apostrophe in text.
>
>
> In the end, they're both apostrophes, and they both mean the same  
> thing, it
> just depends on the context of where it's used. It doesn't matter,  
> they're
> both single apostrophes, and everybody going to recognize them as  
> that,
> whether they're "neutral" or "curly".
>
> -- 
> Matt (speedboxer at gmail.com)
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