RE: U+2018 is not RIGHT HIGH 6

Werner LEMBERG <wl at gnu dot org> wrote:

> the `babel' package

and later:

> Typographically correct quotation is a quite difficult topic.

which I found ironic.

>> So if two glyphs have enough "visual character" to be used in one
>> document to express two different meanings, then they should be
>> encoded as different characters?
>
> Yes, more or less.

I don't think that's what was originally said. A quotation-mark
character that can be used as either an opening or closing mark, but
that doesn't kern correctly in some fonts when used as a closing mark,
does not seem to justify disunification.

> However, quotation characters need language
> tagging or something like that; you certainly don't want to have the
> sitation to ask whether ' is the Byzantine opening quote, or ' the
> Martian alternate closing quote, or ' the you-name-it. It's a
> delicate issue.

You don't want to turn this into a "German language" issue and have the
solution not work for quotational material in other languages that use
the same written conventions.

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