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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings |
Date: | Tue, 21 Apr 2015 17:49:31 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 |
Stefan Monnier wrote:
But yes, `...' is ugly. It used to be pretty back in the XFree86<4.0 days, when they were symmetric
And before that, some character-based video display terminals displayed `...' nicely. There was good technical justification for this, as the 1965 draft definition of ASCII said 0x27 was the code for an opening single quotation mark. However, standardization headed in a different direction long ago and nowadays `...' is ugly everywhere. For more of the history, please see:
Kuhn M. ASCII and Unicode quotation marks (2007). http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html
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