> So, one of the most useful things that could come of the current
> discussion, would be a thorough documentation of the glyph
> variations needed to support both English and German for the same
> quotation mark characters.
For German, it's quite simple: The opening quotes must visibly start
at the base line and go into the lower left direction; the closing
quotes must visibly start somewhere at the uppercase glyph height and
go into the upper right direction.
//
+---+ xx
| |
| |
xx +---+
//
An exception to this might be fonts which imitate handwriting; in this
case the closing quotes are written exactly in the opposite direction.
Werner
Received on Mon Apr 30 2012 - 02:33:04 CDT
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