On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 12:10:32AM +0200, Peter Dyballa wrote: > They're presumingly pdfTeX users.
No. Many users still use the ASCII quote in their documents (U+0027). I see examples of that all the time, for instance (but it's really only one example, among many others), in the e-mail I'm replying to. > With LuaTeX and XeTeX, and that's > probably the target of UTF-8 based hyphenation files Not at all. The target for Unicode-based hyphenation patterns are *all* TeX engines. Patterns are converted on the fly for 8-bit TeX engines. Having a system that works for all the variants without duplicating files was a prerequisite. > And I've actually forgotten how to write > typographic quotes the complicated way. If you mean typing two single straight quotes (U+0027) to get the usual reprentative glyph for the closing double quote (U+201D), it really has nothing to do with the problem at hand. > Which side effect(s) has making the ASCII quotes be typographic quotes? The one Jonathan mentions, to start with. Arthur -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex