Re: [OT] Re: `` ", ` '

From: Mark Davis (mark.davis@jtcsv.com)
Date: Mon Nov 04 2002 - 13:08:46 EST

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    A good algorithm has to be even smarter, so that, for example,
    ...--("this")--... works.

    Mark
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    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "John Cowan" <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
    To: "Doug Ewell" <dewell@adelphia.net>
    Cc: "Unicode Mailing List" <unicode@unicode.org>; "John Delacour"
    <JD@Eremita.demon.co.uk>
    Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 09:06
    Subject: Re: [OT] Re: `` ", ` '

    > Doug Ewell scripsit:
    >
    > > Plus, as Michael said, it's not that hard to write software that keeps
    > > track of matching U+0022's and converts them to U+201C and U+201D as
    > > appropriate (and likewise for single quotes).
    >
    > AFAIK it's not matching that is used, but whether there's whitespace to
    the
    > left (initial form) or not (final form). Otherwise, apostrophes would
    screw
    > up single quotes.
    >
    > --
    > John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com
    > http://www.reutershealth.com http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
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    > --Cousin James
    >
    >

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