perl-unicode

ASCII and Unicode Quotation Marks

1999-12-19 11:12:54
Dear all,

Please read

  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html

for background information on why in your ASCII software and
documentation you really should write 'quote' and not `quote' in the
Unicode age, i.e. why you should not abuse the Latin-1 grave accent as a
left quotation mark. The `quote' will look slightly ugly with modern
fonts, including the updated X fonts.

If you use any software that writes `quote', please submit to the author
a patch and point her to the above URL for background information. Thanks!

Markus

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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Email: mkuhn at acm.org,  WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>

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