On 26 October 2016 at 00:53, Mikhail V <mikhailwas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 25 October 2016 at 23:50, Chris Barker <chris.barker@noaa.gov> wrote:
>
>>that was kind of a throwaway comment,
>>but I think it's a LONG way out, but ideally,
>>the OWTDI would be "curly quotes". The fact that in ASCII,
>>a single quote and a apostrophe are teh same,
>>and that there is no distinction between opening
>>and closing quotes is unfortunate.
>
> Yes from readability POV, curly quotes would make
> sense, and better than many other options, eg. «these».
> Also from POV of parser this could be
> beneficial to have opening/closing char (or not?).
> This only means that those chars should be in
> ASCII ideally. Which is not the case.
> And IMO not that now code should allow
> all characters.
>
> Mikhail
Extended ASCII
145 ‘ ‘ ‘ Left single quotation mark
146 ’ ’ ’ Right single quotation mark
147 “ “ “ Left double quotation mark
148 ” ” ” Right double quotation mark
149 • • • Bullet
150 – – – En dash
151 — — — Em dash
152 ˜ ˜ ˜ Small tilde
So we all must repent now and get back to 8-bit charcters.
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