Re: Header Reply-To

From: Mark Davis (mark.davis@jtcsv.com)
Date: Sun Nov 03 2002 - 15:17:26 EST

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    First, the ` is not a quote mark: it is a grave accent/ Second, it also
    doesn/t say that you can/t use a slash/ say/ instead of a comma/ apostrophe/
    or period/ But that doesn/t mean it/s a good idea/

    Mark
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    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "David Starner" <starner@okstate.edu>
    To: <unicode@unicode.org>
    Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2002 21:02
    Subject: Re: Header Reply-To

    > On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 02:08:45AM +0100, Stefan Persson wrote:
    > > It doesn't follow the ASCII standard as far as quotation marks are
    > > concerned.
    >
    > ASCII never specifies how the quote marks are to be used; that's outside
    > its scope. If someone wants to use `` '' to mark quoted material, it's
    > hardly fine typography, but it's not wrong.
    >
    > --
    > David Starner - starner@okstate.edu
    > Great is the battle-god, great, and his kingdom--
    > A field where a thousand corpses lie.
    > -- Stephen Crane, "War is Kind"
    >
    >

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