While looking at the Unicode properties (code point, script, block, UTF-8 and UTF-16 encoding, etc.) of some characters, I stumbled upon major differences between
` ("GRAVE ACCENT") and
´ ("ACUTE ACCENT"):
Name Code point Script Block UTF-8 GRAVE ACCENT U+000060 Common Basic Latin 60 ACUTE ACCENT U+0000B4 Common Latin 1 Supplement C2 B4
It seems the
´ is not included in the block "Basic Latin" because it was not included in ASCII. What is the reason for including
` but not
´ in ASCII?
I've taken a look into RFC 20 - ASCII format for Network Interchange where it says:
Column/Row Symbol Name 2/7 ' Apostrophe (Closing Single Quotation Mark Acute Accent) 6/0 ` Grave Accent (Opening Single Quotation Mark)
I cannot really make sense out of this. The apostrophe and the acute accent are two quite different characters and the people writing the document most likely knew that. What do these insertions in parentheses even mean?
I've also scanned through ASA X3.4-1963 (the original document) but could not find any reasoning for including
`. Is there any?