<div dir="ltr">This is a nice summary of quotation marks used in various languages:<div><br></div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Specific_language_features">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Specific_language_features</a><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 9:37 PM, Mikhail V <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikhailwas@gmail.com" target="_blank">mikhailwas@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 26 October 2016 at 00:53, Mikhail V <<a href="mailto:mikhailwas@gmail.com">mikhailwas@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On 25 October 2016 at 23:50, Chris Barker <<a href="mailto:chris.barker@noaa.gov">chris.barker@noaa.gov</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>>that was kind of a throwaway comment,<br>
>>but I think it's a LONG way out, but ideally,<br>
>>the OWTDI would be "curly quotes". The fact that in ASCII,<br>
>>a single quote and a apostrophe are teh same,<br>
>>and that there is no distinction between opening<br>
>>and closing quotes is unfortunate.<br>
><br>
> Yes from readability POV, curly quotes would make<br>
> sense, and better than many other options, eg. «these».<br>
> Also from POV of parser this could be<br>
> beneficial to have opening/closing char (or not?).<br>
> This only means that those chars should be in<br>
> ASCII ideally. Which is not the case.<br>
> And IMO not that now code should allow<br>
> all characters.<br>
><br>
> Mikhail<br>
<br>
</span>Extended ASCII<br>
<br>
145 ‘ ‘ ‘ Left single quotation mark<br>
146 ’ ’ ’ Right single quotation mark<br>
147 “ “ “ Left double quotation mark<br>
148 ” ” ” Right double quotation mark<br>
149 • • • Bullet<br>
150 – – – En dash<br>
151 — — — Em dash<br>
152 ˜ ˜ ˜ Small tilde<br>
<br>
So we all must repent now and get back to 8-bit charcters.<br>
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