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Re: Getting Emacs to play nice with Hunspell and apostrophes
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Nikolai Weibull |
Subject: |
Re: Getting Emacs to play nice with Hunspell and apostrophes |
Date: |
Sat, 7 Jun 2014 20:18:49 +0200 |
On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 7:43 PM, Robert Thorpe
<rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com> wrote:
> Nikolai Weibull <now@disu.se> writes:
>> “isn’t”
>
> In Britain and Ireland we generally use "isn't", notice there's no angle
> on the apostrophe.
It’s generally used (in Britain and in other places) instead of the
more correct “typographical” apostrophe/right single quotation mark
because it’s more easily accessible on the standard computer keyboard,
not because it’s preferred.
> The one you're using "’" is the Unicode RIGHT
> QUOTATION MARK.
No, it’s the U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK.
> So, to Emacs you are closing quotes around "isn" and
> putting a "t" straight after that.
I realize that ‘’’ is seen as punctuation by Emacs, which is true in
some cases, when, for example, doing quoting in British English, for
example, ‘this is a quote’ or when doing nested quoting in American
English, for example, “this quote quotes ‘another quote’”, but it’s
also sometimes a character that should be seen as part of a word.
> As far as I know, if you want to use Unicode that would be "isnʼt" which
> is MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE. Have a look with C-u C-x =. I don't
> know if using that will work though.
No, that’s incorrect, please see, for example,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe#Unicode
for a description about the use of apostrophes and Unicode.