This is a nice summary of quotation marks used in various languages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Specific_language_features
On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 9:37 PM, Mikhail V <mikhail...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 26 October 2016 at 00:53, Mikhail V <mikhail...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 25 October 2016 at 23:50, Chris Barker <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: > > > >>that was kind of a throwaway comment, > >>but I think it's a LONG way out, but ideally, > >>the OWTDI would be "curly quotes". The fact that in ASCII, > >>a single quote and a apostrophe are teh same, > >>and that there is no distinction between opening > >>and closing quotes is unfortunate. > > > > Yes from readability POV, curly quotes would make > > sense, and better than many other options, eg. «these». > > Also from POV of parser this could be > > beneficial to have opening/closing char (or not?). > > This only means that those chars should be in > > ASCII ideally. Which is not the case. > > And IMO not that now code should allow > > all characters. > > > > Mikhail > > Extended ASCII > > 145 ‘ ‘ ‘ Left single quotation mark > 146 ’ ’ ’ Right single quotation mark > 147 “ “ “ Left double quotation mark > 148 ” ” ” Right double quotation mark > 149 • • • Bullet > 150 – – – En dash > 151 — — — Em dash > 152 ˜ ˜ ˜ Small tilde > > So we all must repent now and get back to 8-bit charcters. > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > Python-ideas@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- Keeping medicines from the bloodstreams of the sick; food from the bellies of the hungry; books from the hands of the uneducated; technology from the underdeveloped; and putting advocates of freedom in prisons. Intellectual property is to the 21st century what the slave trade was to the 16th.
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