Re: Entities in alt and title text

On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Helmut Richter wrote:

It does not matter whether a right single quote (rsq) *looks like* an
apostrophe, it *is not* an apostrophe!

That's your personal taste. Unicode does not distinguish between
a single quotation mark 9 and an apostrophe. There is only U+2019.
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/apostrophe.html

Your personal taste might also call for different characters for
umlaut and for diaeresis. Nevertheless, Unicode has only one ¨
and only one ü .

Unicode likewise has only one character for dagesh/mappiq/shuruq,
U+05BC - even if you think they are different.
.

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