[tz] Re: Using curved quotes etc. in TZDB HTML

Brian Inglis wrote:

We have numerous Unicode glyphs and HTML entity symbols for variants of spaces, dashes, and Mathematical symbols and letters, so Unicode and HTML entities could manage a few extra glyphs and symbols for English word abbreviation mark `…, s possessive mark …'s, and plural s possessive mark …s', where the latter two could perhaps be combined, as with accented and historical variants of s glyphs.

Decisions about whether to encode Unicode characters, especially lookalikes such as these, are always made on their own merits. They are never a matter of “we have these (near-)duplicates, so we might as well have these other (near-)duplicates as well.” -- Doug Ewell, CC, ALB | Lakewood, CO, US | ewellic.org