I stumbled across the following sentence in the description of “unclear what you’re asking” close reason:
As it's currently written, it’s hard to tell exactly what you're asking.
The first it's
as well as the you're
uses the typewriter or vertical apostrophe (U+0027 '
) while the second it’s
shows the typographic or curly apostrophe (U+2019 ’
), which is the preferred character to use for apostrophe according to the Unicode standard.
This applies to the description on closed questions as well as the close dialog. On https://askubuntu.com/help/closed-questions on the other hand only typewriter apostrophes are used.
As a typography enthusiast I'd opt for the curly apostrophe, but I’m
fine with the alternative as well – as long as it’s
consistent!
What's the difference you may ask. Well, try echo it’s
as opposed to echo it's
in your favorite shell once…
AltGr+Shift+N
. – dessert May 10 '18 at 23:30´
, which is an accent and not the same thing. – TheWanderer May 10 '18 at 23:35AltGr+}
for me.’
– TheWanderer May 10 '18 at 23:37‘
,“
and”
and you’re able to quote beautifully. – dessert May 10 '18 at 23:40‘
”
”
I gotchu. Just combos of Shift and the other bracket. – TheWanderer May 10 '18 at 23:46AltGR
? – fosslinux May 11 '18 at 7:56