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Re: Quotation marks
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Quotation marks |
Date: |
Sat, 17 Feb 2007 12:24:22 +0200 |
> From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:25:37 +0900
> Cc: address@hidden
>
> "Per Starbäck" <address@hidden> writes:
> > I suggest sometimes using a display table where they are replaced by
> > U+2018 LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK and
> > U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK.
>
> Those quite often look _worse_ -- it's very common that they get dragged
> in from some completely unrelated font (in my current setup, they use a
> double-width font, and the resulting glyphs are odd blobs that don't
> even look like any kind of quotes at all!).
On top of that, we've been having similar discussions several times
already, and they always ended with the same result: the current
status quo. Markus Kuhn's crusade against `..' is well known, and so
are Richard's objections to it. Why waste any more time on this?