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

  • Aatube@kbin.melroy.orgOP
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    1 month ago

    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.

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      1 month ago

      The unicode standard has stated that U+2019 is the preferred character for apostrophes since at least the late 90s.

      And it’s not like using a curved apostrophe in typesetting was novel even then.

      as opposed to U+2019 being posthumously appropriated

      U+0027 was also an ASCII character. The death of ASCII as a common format is the only one I can think of… what death are you referring to here?