[tz] Re: Using curved quotes etc. in TZDB HTML

[Paul Eggert via tz]

On 2025-08-24 22:37, Peter Krefting via tz wrote:
   <q>Prague</q>, <q>Praha</q>, <q>Прага</q>, and <q>布拉格</q>.

Thanks, I had not considered that, and perhaps we should use <q> for 
ordinary double-quoting in English. However, <q> does not address text 
like this:

  Astrodienst&rsquo;s Web version of Shanks and Pottenger&rsquo;s

which is not as nice as:

  Astrodienst’s Web version of Shanks and Pottenger’s

Also, <https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-q-element> says that <q> is not 
always a substitute for ordinary double-quoting. For example, in:

  They are not in any sense “standard compatible” – some are

using <q> would be incorrect as this does not quote another source.

So even if we use <q> there are places where we will still need curved 
quotes in the HTML.

For more about issues with <q>, please see:

https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/10216