I am currently taking a look at the following edit:
https://musicbrainz.org/edit/46694601
Specifically at the edit for track #2 where the apostrophe symbol is being replaced with a 'right single quotation mark’
reference: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~richard/utf-8.cgi?input=’&mode=char
Is there something specifically in the style guide that should/does mention how to approach responding to this type of edit?
Or should I vote no on the edit based on common English language knowledge?
Curious on others thoughts.
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It is buried a little in the Miscellaneous guidline:
Use of basic ASCII punctuation characters such as ’ and " is allowed, but typographically-correct punctuation is preferred. The Classical Style Guide has its own rules about punctuation in titles; please follow that guideline where it applies. Use normal Latin letters for Roman numerals: their Unicode versions exist only for compatibility purposes and its use is discouraged by the standard (p.754).
So the edit is correct.
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@mfmeulenbelt has it for the most part, but I wanted to add that apostrophes do indeed use the right single quotation mark according to Unicode (see page 16). The thought is that the straight quote/apostrophe is a convention from typewriters rather than the historic symbol for the glyph, which was identical to the quotation mark.
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