On Sat, Jan 24, 2026 at 5:35 AM Kent Karlsson via Unicode < [email protected]> wrote:
> *From:* Unicode <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Jukka > K. Korpela via Unicode > > *Sent:* Friday, January 16, 2026 8:46 PM > > … > > Generally, whether a character is closing, final, initial, or opening > punctation should be based on language-specific > > information, such as CLDR. > > I would advice against that, since 1) language information is not always > available, 2) even when available, it is not reliable, > 3) even when available and correct, people often use their primary > language’s quotation convention, even for there second/third/… language… > I agree > For quotation marks, it is an unfortunate historical accident that > different typographic traditions (not languages really) have > different conventions. > Yes -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Summary_table > For “ambiguous” quote marks (and for that matter apostrophes also when not > used as quotation marks) and line breaking > I have proposed an update to the Unicode line breaking rules (not > language/typographic tradition dependent) in > https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2025/25261r-line-breaking.pdf. > > That should take care of the line breaking issue (very annoying at > present) for “ambiguous” quote marks. > About that, see L2/26-006 <https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2026/26006-utc186-properties-recs.pdf> = https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2026/26006-utc186-properties-recs.pdf section 4.1 / page 11. markus >
