Re: Glyphs for German quotation marks

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Andreas Prilop 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.
Actually, that was a deliberate decision, albeit slightly controversial.
In small screen resolutions, telling U+201C from U+201D would be
impossible otherwise. I don't see anything wrong with using Verdana
quotation marks as they are for German or Polish.

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Adam Twardoch
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