From: Ben Dougall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wednesday, May 28, 2003, at 06:59 pm, Otto Stolz wrote:
PS. In these tow languages, the quote-marks are paired thusly:
en_US: U+201C ... U+201D, and U+2018 ... U+2019
de_DE: U+201E ... U+201C, and U+201A ... U+2018
are they the right way
Ben Dougall schreef:
the reason i said that bit is html and xml (i know they're not
human
languages and they're certainly not in the area i'm asking about)
So you were not talking about computer languages and I don't need to
point out Pascal's (* *) and C's /* */ delimiters for comments?
OK...
Philippe Verdy scripsit:
French usage of these quotation marks is interesting: when a quotation
spans several paragraphs, each paragraph starts with a quotation mark,
but only the last one is terminated by the mirrored mark.
This is also the rule in English. However, it is usually only
Ben Dougall wrote:
On Wednesday, May 28, 2003, at 06:59 pm, Otto Stolz wrote:
PS. In these tow languages, the quote-marks are paired thusly:
en_US: U+201C ... U+201D, and U+2018 ... U+2019
de_DE: U+201E ... U+201C, and U+201A ... U+2018
are they the right way round? so in german it'd be:
On Thursday, May 29, 2003, at 02:16 pm, Pim Blokland wrote:
Ben Dougall schreef:
the reason i said that bit is html and xml (i know they're not
human
languages and they're certainly not in the area i'm asking about)
So you were not talking about computer languages and I don't need to
point out
On Thursday, May 29, 2003, at 08:08 pm, Markus Scherer wrote:
Ben Dougall wrote:
On Wednesday, May 28, 2003, at 06:59 pm, Otto Stolz wrote:
PS. In these tow languages, the quote-marks are paired thusly:
en_US: U+201C ... U+201D, and U+2018 ... U+2019
de_DE: U+201E ... U+201C, and U+201A ...
On Thursday, May 29, 2003, at 02:10 pm, Philippe Verdy wrote:
Interestingly, the French first-level quotation marks use what we call
chevrons (double angle brackets).
However there are some typographical considerations that common fonts
forget when they design these characters:
They are
From: Ben Dougall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thursday, May 29, 2003, at 02:10 pm, Philippe Verdy wrote:
Interestingly, the French first-level quotation marks use what we call
chevrons (double angle brackets).
However there are some typographical considerations that common fonts
forget
Ben Dougall asked:
On Thursday, May 29, 2003, at 02:10 pm, Philippe Verdy wrote:
Interestingly, the French first-level quotation marks use what we call
chevrons (double angle brackets).
are they something that's in unicode? apart from the less than and
greater than symbols i can't
Philippe Verdy wrote:
Code positions 0xAB and 0xBB (in ISO-8859-1) are
canonically equivalent to Unicode U+00AB («) and
U+00BB (») code points.
One correction -- this has nothing to do with canonical equivalence.
This (as for all other ISO/IEC 8859-1 encoded characters)
is an example of
Ben Dougall wrote:
So, there is not comprehensive list of openers vs. closers possible.
so that's a 99 shaped quote on the baseline to open and, and a 99 high
up to close. seems very odd to use 99 high or low to open, not a 66. but
if that's how it is, that's how it is.
Well, wait - I was
Ben Dougall bend at freenet dot co dot uk wrote:
does anyone know if characters giving a bracketing function are
universal to most (all?) languages in use today?: any characters, or
groups of chars even, that have an enclosing purpose, like quotes and
brackets?
I think it is safe to assume
Doug Ewell wrote:
The actual characters used for these purposes vary, not only by script
but also by language and even country,
E. g., the very same character,
U+201C LEFT DOUBLE QUOTE QUOTATION MARK, is used
- as opening-quote mark, in English (USA),
- as closing-quote mark, in German (DE).
thanks for the reply.
On Wednesday, May 28, 2003, at 04:09 pm, Doug Ewell wrote:
Ben Dougall bend at freenet dot co dot uk wrote:
does anyone know if characters giving a bracketing function are
universal to most (all?) languages in use today?: any characters, or
groups of chars even, that have
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