Joaquin Cuenca Abela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> I came late to the whole discussion about smart > quotes, so maybe all that are old news, but does the > current scheme take in account that in some languages > (like french) the "smart quote" is in fact two > characters (opening quote should be substituted by > opening chevron, non-breaking space) ? No, the *current* scheme doesn't support any other languages than American English. > in french should be quoted as: > example of <<_quoted text_>> > > (the _ is a non-breaking space) Actually, it shouldn't be the U+00A0 full-width non-breaking word space, but a narrower non-breaking space (perhaps a 'thin space' -- I don't remember, but I believe there is some information on this at the Unicode Web site). I don't think this will be very difficult to support. > In addition, quoted multi line text should be > typesetted as: > > This is << a multi > << line text quoted > << a la french > << fashion >> This will be much more difficult to implement. Does any WP support this? LaTeX, does, right? > And, just to make things a bit more funny, quoted text > inside quoted text should be written as: > > This is <<_quoted "text" a la frech_>> The PDF document I cited has some information on how various WPs and DTP programs handle this. But I believe the quote character selection UI I suggested will provide at least a usuable way to insert the correct quote character, even with 'dumb' smart quotes support. -- Karl Ove Hufthammer
