At Mon, 29 Mar 2004 04:23:37 -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > as a German native speaker with some interest on typography but > > virtually no knowledge on UTF-8 some comments: > > > > The common quotes in German today are > > double open quotes (low position) U201E > > together with > > double closed quote (high position) U201C > > > > The current conversion > > ,,text" > > looks strange because the opening quotes don't match the closing > > quotes. > I would make an effort to avoid any conversion which is asymmetrical in > length, for any language, actually. I hate when info documents say ``foo", > for instance...
So are ,,text'' and ``foo'' reasonable? Regards, -- gotom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]