Apologies... Somewhere my memory has become garbled. You are quite right RFC Editor is relentlessly focused on double quotes. I obviously getting too old for this job.Cheers,ElwynOn 3 May 2021 21:25, Carsten Bormann wrote:On 2021-05-03, at 22:10, Elwyn Davies wrote:
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> Hi, Carsten.
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On 2021-05-03, at 22:10, Elwyn Davies wrote:
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> Hi, Carsten.
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> My understanding is
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> RFC editor position: use single quotes for everything.
Wasn’t that way for my first 42 RFCs :-)
> Standard US view apparently.
US view is actually rather unanimously double quotes (outside any
Hi, Carsten.My understanding isRFC editor position: use single quotes for everything. Standard US view apparently.British position (my version): long passages, especially direct speech quotes to be enclosed in double quotes. Odd words and short phrases within sentences use single quotes.
Hi Elwyn,
thank you for this substantive review.
We’ll get to the details soon, but I’m intrigued by this:
> General: The RFC Editor preferes the US convention for quoting items using
> exclusively singe quote rather than double quote marks.
Last time I looked at this, I gained the impression
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