Adam Borowski - 29.03.18, 23:40:
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 10:57:44PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > Nice, I like these: ｢｣｢｣｢｣｢｣｢｣｢｣ Now I wonder how to type these on a
> > keyboard with German keyboard layout. Hmmm, Alt-Gr-S is ſ but that is not
> > the same as ｢. Hmmm, did not find it.
>
> I don't know of any preconfigured way to type these; I for one use a Compose
> sequence but a more convenient binding could be nice. Especially if we
> could agree on something ("Alt-[" ?) and submit upstream to X guys.
>
> '｢'/'｣' are "halfwidth" (ie, normal width) version of Chinese/Japanese
> quotes: '「'/'」' which would be problematic in most settings because
> support for double-width characters is often lacking.
>
> Among other alternatives, »foo« are worse as their direction is
> inconsistent: I was taught »foo« but some countries use «foo», the French
> "« foo »", Swedes »foo»; “foo” is unwise to use together with ".
Well I know how to type „these German quotes“, but I bet they are not
unambiguous either.
> On the other hand, I heard Perl6 uses ｢｣ quotes; among their other Unicode
> uses, this is the only pair of characters that has seen wide adoption.
Well, about Perl, there a funny REBOL script¹. It outputs:
****************************************************************
N O W P E R L U S E R S W O N ' T
F E E L L E F T O U T
****************************************************************
[1] http://www.rebol.org/view-script.r?script=alien.r
:)
But anyhow, we are clearly off topic here.
Thanks,
--
Martin
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