Re: `` ", ` '

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Mon Nov 04 2002 - 10:18:19 EST

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At 09:26 +0000 2002-11-04, John Delacour wrote:

>>It's a terrible idea. I hate ``this quoting convention" (or
>>alternatively ``this one'') as much as anyone.
>
>It's a very good idea if you consider that it enables us-ascii text
>to be easily converted to nicely formatted text containing curly
>quotes pointing in the right directions, which is the reason for the
>convention.

Most decent word processers can do this correctly with pairs of "
without resorting to this dinosaur of 7-bit encoding mucking up plain
text.

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

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