@All Thank you for this feed back. and the link to your wiki page.
@Mélanie thank you for this reference to Unicode.
@All, I am beginning to work with texts (for keyboard layout analysis) which sometimes has French text intermixed (such is often the case with minority languages in countries from Francophone Africa). I am quite aware of many Unicode things, but I am always learning. One language I am working with requires the use of U+02BC. Being that that the consensus that I am hearing here is that French uses U+2019, then it would make sense to 1) split the languages to two separate keyboards; or 2) make sure they are in two visually different locations. But if these language communities are to also write Internet addresses or code they may also want U+0027. So, yes there are complexities. I don't have a French language usage background. So, typographic encoding norms for French are new to me. Can anyone point me to a really good, trustworthy, accurate description (preferably with Unicode character points) of French Writing norms? Things like Casing rules, and capitalization rules, and where commas, periods, belong, what are the characters needed for writing French, what is the default NFD or NFC when doing text production in French, etc? The resource could be in French or English.
An interesting comment on the English use of the apostrophe can be read here:
thank you,
- Hugh Paterson III