[xsl] Re: [xquery-talk] backticks in regex - tales of the unexpected part II

[Ihe Onwuka <ihe.onwuka@xxxxxxxxx>]

it and every other backtick in the dataset I am dealing with is a
mistyped quotation  mark.

Exhibit 1

Aisha`s Song but is supposed to be referring to
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1950067/

On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 6:20 PM, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 7 Apr 2014, at 17:07, Ihe Onwuka <ihe.onwuka@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> backticks match the \w regex class which does seem at odds with the
>> definition of that class.
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> You might call it a backtick, and misuse it as a kind of quotation mark, but its proper Unicode name and intended semantics is "grave accent", and the \w category includes all non-spacing diacriticals.
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> Michael Kay
> Saxonica