0027, 02BC, 2019, or a new character?

Julian Bradfield via Unicode unicode at unicode.org
Sat Jan 27 03:29:03 CST 2018


On 2018-01-26, Richard Wordingham via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org> wrote:
> Some systems (or admins) have been totally defeated by even the ASCII
> version of ʹO’Sullivanʹ.  That bodes ill for Kazakhs.

The head (about to be ex-head) of my university is Sir Timothy O'Shea.
On the student record system, it is impossible to search for students
called O'Shea (I have one). I suppose it doesn't sanitize correctly -
I haven't tried looking for little Bobby Tables yet. It hadn't
occurred to me to check, but of course searching for O’Shea doesn't
work either, as they usually enter their own names into the initial
record, and use 0027.


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