How to escape McDonald’s

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Nov 8 2007. Vegetarians like me of course tend to avoid certain vendors of digestibles (shall we say «food»?), but the industry seems to have misunderstood my wish of escaping them as often as possible:

What is remarkable, besides the amount character entity escaping a headline is subjected to in modern cashier systems, is that even the original typography would be wrong at least in German typesetting: ' yields a straight «apostrophe» ', as opposed to the typographic apostrophe that looks like a comma (and that can be produced in HTML by ’). Note that both ways of writing apostrophes would be legal in English, but not in German.


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