Re: `` ", ` '

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Mon Nov 04 2002 - 10:18:19 EST

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    At 09:26 +0000 2002-11-04, John Delacour wrote:

    >>It's a terrible idea. I hate ``this quoting convention" (or
    >>alternatively ``this one'') as much as anyone.
    >
    >It's a very good idea if you consider that it enables us-ascii text
    >to be easily converted to nicely formatted text containing curly
    >quotes pointing in the right directions, which is the reason for the
    >convention.

    Most decent word processers can do this correctly with pairs of "
    without resorting to this dinosaur of 7-bit encoding mucking up plain
    text.

    -- 
    Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com
    


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