Richard Kettlewell <[email protected]> writes: > Some fonts have the apostrophe represented by, approximately speaking, > the mirror image of the grave accent. In that case `htonl' looks like > it has balanced quotes. > > These days ‘single’ and “double” quotes are available in Unicode.
Unicode quotes look better (on unicode-capable displays[*]), but also make things much more annoying for any kind of programmatic handling of the output. The standard ` and ' are a reasonable compromise, I think. [*] Well _usually_ look better... I've noticed cases where unicode quotes are rendered so lightly that they end up being almost invisible... -Miles -- Would you like fries with that? _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
