Stefan Persson wrote: > > > Why doesn't that page follow the ASCII standard and/or > any ASCII-based > > > standard? > > > > What? As far as I can tell, it's 100% ASCII. > > It doesn't follow the ASCII standard as far as quotation marks are > concerned.
Using ` and ' as quotation marks is a long-standing Internet convention. See RFC #20, October 1969 (sic!): http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc20.html "4.2 Graphic Characters [...] 2/7 ' Apostrophe (Closing Single Quotation Mark Acute Accent [2]) [...] 6/0 ` Grave Accent [2,3] (Opening Single Quotation Mark) [...] 2 The use of the symbols in 2/2, 2/7, 2/12, 5/14, /6/0, and 7/14 as diacritical marks is described in Appendix A, A5.2 [...]" RCF #20 contains no Appendix A, so I guess that this usage is described in the ASCII standard itself. _ Marco
