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Why does the “single-quote” () symbol in the fonts not look the way it used to?

April 26, 2017fonts look single-quote symbol Used

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Why does the “single-quote” () symbol in the fonts not look the way it used to?

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First things first: this symbol is an apostrophe, not a single-quote. The glyph did indeed change between XFree86 3.x and XFree86 4.x, fixing a long-standing bug.