--- Karl Ove Hufthammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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).
do you mean a quarter of a cadratin? I don't know for sure. You should use a thin space before ?! and such in frech, but I don't know if it's a thin space or a full one after and before the opening and closing quotes (after a quick search in the net, it seems that it's a full space, but I don't know if the authors of the pages that I've consulted are right here). > 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? Not that I know of > LaTeX, does, right? Nope. LaTeX does the wrong thing here. Frenchies have been doing horribles workarounds to make that work on LaTeX (hand-made macros to place manually quotes at the start of the line, etc.) > > 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. Yes, the character selection UI look pretty good. I just wanted to know if more complex algorithms were possible with the new smart quotes implementation. Cheers, ===== Joaquin Cuenca Abela [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com
