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:It’s the Americans who used the grave accent wrongly for the left single quotation mark. See [http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/apostrophe.html Apostrophe and acute accent confusion] and [http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html ASCII and Unicode quotation marks]. &mdash; [[Utilisateur:TAKASUGI Shinji|T<small>AKASUGI</small> Shinji]] ([[Discussion utilisateur:TAKASUGI Shinji|d]]) 28 avril 2009 à 11:47 (UTC)

 

:: That author is saying what he thinks should be done, given the present state; but he is wrong about the original characters. The two characters (60 and 27) come from the left quote glyph (called "quote") and the right quote/apostrophe glyph, called "apostrophe", used in hot-metal typesetting from 1886 into the 1980's. Check out the keyboard I referred to; very familiar to me. Look at the appearance of "Quote" and "Apostrophe" in the bottom middle (in the full size image). It got messed up with 27 being mis-represented as a "straight" quote in computer fonts (but ''never'' in typesetting); so now if gets hacked (by MS word notably, and fr.wikt), to try to make it "look" right; to the point where the right single quote code is "preferred" to force the desired appearance for apostrophe in poor fonts. [[Utilisateur:Robert Ullmann|Robert Ullmann]] 28 avril 2009 à 17:04 (UTC)