Re: Latin-1's apostrophe, grave accent, acute accent

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>
>After having given a lot of careful thought about this, and having used
>the modified X11 fonts for several months now myself, I am inclined to
>favour B). I in general prefer to do the 'right' thing more than doing
>the `traditional' thing. However, I imagine that this could lead to some
>controversial discussion with some ASCII veterans. Comments and opinions
>would be very welcome.

Just do the right thing. Method A never really worked all that well, and
gets really bad results when text goes from e-mail into word-processing.
Accents
simply were not meant to be quotation marks.

A./

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