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code 027 is ' in ISO 8859-1, and is ’ in Adobe ISOLatin1+
code 060 is ` in ISO 8859-1, and is ‘ in Adobe ISOLatin1+
There must be some historical or typographic reasons behind the differences. Due to the above differences, typesetting `' in PostScript results in ‘’, which means users have to use octal codes if they need the `' characters.
It's possible to patch the ISOLatin1+ encoding mapping table so that `' are displayed like `', rather than ‘’. But it's a breaking change. So, do we want to break it or not?
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered:
Backtick (or grave accent)
`
and straight single quote'
are ASCII characters and can be typed using a normal keyboard.If you compare the Adobe ISOLatin1+ encoding, and the ISO 8859-1 encoding, you will see that,
'
in ISO 8859-1, and is’
in Adobe ISOLatin1+`
in ISO 8859-1, and is‘
in Adobe ISOLatin1+There must be some historical or typographic reasons behind the differences. Due to the above differences, typesetting
`'
in PostScript results in‘’
, which means users have to use octal codes if they need the`'
characters.Here is a minimal example to reproduce the issue:
The script produces the following image:
It's possible to patch the ISOLatin1+ encoding mapping table so that
`'
are displayed like`'
, rather than‘’
. But it's a breaking change. So, do we want to break it or not?The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: