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Author lemburg
Recipients ezio.melotti, gvanrossum, lemburg, markon, nickd, nnorwitz, pitrou, r.david.murray, rhettinger, twb
Date 2009-09-29.08:37:12
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Marc-Andre Lemburg wrote:
> 
> Regarding the apostrophe: the Unicode standard doesn't appear to
> include any rule regarding that character and its use in titles
> or upper-case versions of text. The apostrophe itself is a
> non-cased code point.
> 
> It's likely that the special use of the apostrophe in English
> is actually a language-specific use case. For those, it's (currently)
> better to implement your own versions of the conversion functions,
> based on the existing methods.

Looking at the many different uses in various languages, this
appears to be the better option:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe

To make things even more complicated, the usual typewriter apostrophe
that you find in ASCII is not the only one in Unicode:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe#Unicode
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