[Python-ideas] Smart/Curly Quote Marks and cPython

[Mikhail V]

On 26 October 2016 at 00:53, Mikhail V <mikhailwas at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 25 October 2016 at 23:50, Chris Barker <chris.barker at 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.