On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 01:17:58AM -0400, Ryan Birmingham wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I want to start small and ask about smart/curly quote marks (” vs ").
Which curly quotes are you going to support? There's Dutch, of course: „…” ‚…’ But how about … ? - English ‘…’ “…” - French « … » “…” - Swiss «…» ‹…› - Hebrew „…” ‚…’ - Hungarian „…” »…« - Icelandic „…“ ‚…‘ - Japanese 「…」 『…』 - Polish „…” «…» »…« - Swedish ”…” ’…’ »…» »…« to mention only a few. I think it would be unfair to all the non-Dutch programmers if we only supported Dutch quotation marks, but as you can see, supporting the full range of internationalised curly quotes is difficult. > Although most languages do not support these characters as quotation marks, > I believe that cPython should, if possible. You say "most" -- do you know which programming languages support typographical quotation marks for strings? It would be good to see a survey of which languages support this feature, and how they cope with the internationalisation problem. I think this is likely to be just too hard. There's a reason why programming has standardized on the lowest common denominator for quotation marks '' "" and occasionally `` as well. -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
