Top all-time · #12066
Tedʼs Blog
Personal blog · tedclancy.wordpress.comwritingprogramming
Tedʼs Blog is a personal blog at tedclancy.wordpress.com about writing and programming. Since 2015, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Which character should represent the apostrophe? The Unicode committee is wrong”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Ted Clancy's personal blog for its posts on Unicode and typography, such as apostrophe characters, mojibake, and typing Chinese. The comments cite it as background rather than praise it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Which character should represent the apostrophe? The Unicode committee is wrong4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-06-03
What Hacker News says?
UNICODE and ASCII apostrophes are a bit absurd. For KeenQuotes[1], my library to automatically curl straight quotes, there's an Apostrophe type that defines variations on how to convert a straight apostrophe to a curled one. The main issue is that most suggestions are to use ’, which isn't semantically correct[2], and at one point Michael Everson noted, "the alphabetic property should be restored to U+02BC"[3]…
Comment linking /2015/06/03/which-unicode-character-should-represent-the-english-apostrophe-and-why-the-unicode-committee-is-very-wrong/
on “Germans decry influence of English as 'idiot's apostrophe' gets approval”Submitted Typing Chinese like English as a story · 95 points
HN discussionThe previous post suggests that the mention of employer wasn't referring to Mozilla: https://tedclancy.wordpress.com/2015/11/04/rebranding/
Comment linking /2015/11/04/rebranding/
on “Typing Chinese like English”Submitted Which character should represent the apostrophe? The Unicode committee is wrong as a story · 52 points
HN discussionWhen UTF-8 wasn't univeral (geez, I'm old... It was still this century though!), a page I found to figure out what was going on when I encountered Mojibake is: http://www.jeppesn.dk/utf-8.html . Amazingly it hasn't suffered linkrot and is still online. And I fully agree with footnote 2, why is an extended Unicode character being used in place of the apostrophe? https://tedclancy.wordpress.com/2015/06/03/which-unicod…
Comment linking /2015/06/03/which-unicode-character-should-represent-the-english-apostrophe-and-why-the-unicode-committee-is-very-wrong/
on “Unicode shenanigans: Martine écrit en UTF-8”Submitted How the Unicode Committee Broke the Apostrophe as a story · 35 points
HN discussion