Re: Header Reply-To

From: Mark Davis (mark.davis@jtcsv.com)
Date: Mon Nov 04 2002 - 10:21:54 EST

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    I don't think that usage is described in the ASCII standard; as far as I can
    tell it is only in that RFC.

    And it leads to really ugly text nowadays, such as in
    http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/4439727.htm

    Mark
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    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Marco Cimarosti" <marco.cimarosti@essetre.it>
    To: "'Stefan Persson'" <alsjebegrijptwatikbedoel@yahoo.se>; "David Starner"
    <starner@okstate.edu>
    Cc: <unicode@unicode.org>
    Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 03:10
    Subject: RE: Header Reply-To

    > Stefan Persson wrote:
    > > > > Why doesn't that page follow the ASCII standard and/or
    > > any ASCII-based
    > > > > standard?
    > > >
    > > > What? As far as I can tell, it's 100% ASCII.
    > >
    > > It doesn't follow the ASCII standard as far as quotation marks are
    > > concerned.
    >
    > Using ` and ' as quotation marks is a long-standing Internet convention.
    See
    > RFC #20, October 1969 (sic!):
    >
    > http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc20.html
    >
    > "4.2 Graphic Characters
    > [...]
    > 2/7 ' Apostrophe (Closing Single Quotation Mark Acute Accent [2])
    > [...]
    > 6/0 ` Grave Accent [2,3] (Opening Single Quotation Mark)
    > [...]
    > 2 The use of the symbols in 2/2, 2/7, 2/12, 5/14, /6/0, and 7/14 as
    > diacritical marks is described in Appendix A, A5.2
    > [...]"
    >
    > RCF #20 contains no Appendix A, so I guess that this usage is described in
    > the ASCII standard itself.
    >
    > _ Marco
    >
    >

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