Re: Glyphs for German quotation marks

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Wed Jun 14 2006 - 19:00:13 CDT

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At 12:18 -0700 2006-06-14, John Hudson wrote:
>Karl Pentzlin wrote:
>
>>But it is not OK when somebody designs quotes for English, deviating from
>> the designs recommended by the Unicode chart glyphs
>
>The Unicode code charts do not 'recommend' designs. They show sample
>glyphs from one particular typeface.

In fairness, the shape-directionality of the quotation marks in the
Unicode glyph charts are "correct" and if you have wedge-shaped or
6/9 shaped quotation marks the "correct" configuration of those
quotation marks should be followed.

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

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