From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Sun Nov 03 2002 - 16:29:25 EST
Mark Davis <mark dot davis at jtcsv dot com> wrote:
> 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/
It's a terrible idea. I hate ``this quoting convention" (or
alternatively ``this one'') as much as anyone.
I think the problem is that when Stefan said the page "doesn't follow
the ASCII standard and/or any ASCII-based standard," everyone (including
me) assumed that meant it wasn't encoded in an ASCII-based character
encoding, not that it didn't use 0x22 for double quotation marks. I
don't have a copy of the ASCII standard and I have no idea whether
"following" it requires that 0x22 be used for double quotation marks,
although it certainly makes sense to do so
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
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