Dave <dave_140...@hotmail.com> writes: > Now, I was wondering what could be the reason behind this convention. > Why not use just straight quotes also in front of the quoted word? For > example: > > Using 'htonl' is necessary so that > > or: > > Using "htonl" is necessary so that
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. -- http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/
