On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Henry Spencer wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Markus Kuhn wrote: > > Details and background information (also for forwarding to others who > > routinely make the same mistake): > > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/apostrophe.html > > One quibble: use of 0x60 as opening single quotation mark was not some > random whim of font designers, but was actually specified by earlier > versions of the ASCII standard. For example, X3.4-1977 (which is what I > happen to have on hand) says that 0x60 is Opening Single Quotation Mark, > with Grave Accent only a secondary meaning. Yes, this usage is obsolete, > but it was legitimate in its day. That's a slightly seperate issue, but, surprise :-), I have a web page on that one too http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html where ANSI X3.4 is quoted. Note however that this is only one national standard, whereas for instance ECMA-6 didn't mention the dual-use as directional quotation marks even back in its first edition in 1965 and European manufacturers (Siemens, Nixdorf, etc.) followed the ECMA standard in their terminal and printer founts. ECMA-6 did however suggest that APOSTROPHE could also serve as an acute accent. ftp://www.ecma.ch/ECMA-ST/ECMA-006.psc Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/> - Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
