Re: Question about properties of some Code Points

From: Chris Jacobs (chris.jacobs@freeler.nl)
Date: Mon Jul 21 2003 - 22:50:15 EDT

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    > Where am I going with this? Basically what I'm after is a clean/clear
    > way to tell if quotation marks and parentheses (plus the other
    > bracketing characters such as '[' or '{' are opening or closing
    > punctuation. That's the real question here! How would you do that
    > using properties and categories?

     Basically you just cannot do that.
    An explicit counterexample given in Version 3.0 page 152 is:

    «French»
    »Slovenian«

    « can be both opening and closing.
    » can be both opening and closing.



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