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Should ASCII apostrophes be replaced with U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK ? #703

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@gibson042

Related to #701, there are also instances of U+0027 APOSTROPHE (') in ECMA-262 and ECMA-402 that could be replaced with the so-called "punctuation apostrophe":

  • 's possessives
  • bare plural possessives (workers'/events'/etc.)
  • contractions (don't/we've/etc.)
  • year groups (OOPSLA '97)

ECMA-402 also has one use of ' for quoting (in CanonicalizeUValue: «recommended that implementations use the 'u' extension data»), but that can be avoided by rewording.

I think ecmarkup would just replace any non-code ', assuming that it is not part of a quoting pair—and we have the <!-- emu-format ignore --> escape hatch for any future sites in which that assumption doesn't hold.

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