Re: Glyphs for German quotation marks

From: David Starner (prosfilaes@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Jun 08 2006 - 12:19:49 CDT

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    On 6/8/06, Andreas Prilop <nhtcapri@rrzn-user.uni-hannover.de> wrote:
    > On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Adam Twardoch wrote:
    >
    > >> U+2018 and U+201C are *rotational* images of U+2019 and U+201D.
    > >> U+201B and U+201F are *mirrored* images of U+2019 and U+201D.
    > >
    > > Says who?
    >
    > Look at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2000.pdf .

    The glyphs in the Unicode standard are descriptive, not prescriptive.

    > And take a beginner's course in typography.

    He gives beginner's courses in typography. Just take a look at his
    website <http://www.twardoch.com/adam/>. You can disagree all you
    want, but I think your tone is a little out of line.



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