Mark Davis <mark dot davis at jtcsv dot com> wrote: > First, the ` is not a quote mark: it is a grave accent/ Second, it > also doesn/t say that you can/t use a slash/ say/ instead of a comma/ > apostrophe/ or period/ But that doesn/t mean it/s a good idea/
It's a terrible idea. I hate ``this quoting convention" (or alternatively ``this one'') as much as anyone. I think the problem is that when Stefan said the page "doesn't follow the ASCII standard and/or any ASCII-based standard," everyone (including me) assumed that meant it wasn't encoded in an ASCII-based character encoding, not that it didn't use 0x22 for double quotation marks. I don't have a copy of the ASCII standard and I have no idea whether "following" it requires that 0x22 be used for double quotation marks, although it certainly makes sense to do so -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California .
