Re: Glyphs for German quotation marks

From: Andreas Prilop (nhtcapri@rrzn-user.uni-hannover.de)
Date: Fri Jun 02 2006 - 11:32:33 CDT

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    On Fri, 02 Jun 2006, Otto Stolz wrote:

    > - the designers of most fonts do not take into account these different
    > usages for U+201C, and U+2018, and their respective glyphs.

    No, the problem is that the creators of a few Microsoft fonts
    confused U+201C with U+201F.
     http://www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/temp/quotes.html
     http://www.heckmeck.de/computerstuff/anfzeichen/

    We have to wait until Microsoft fix their broken software
    (as usual).

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