At 09:26 +0000 2002-11-04, John Delacour wrote:
Most decent word processers can do this correctly with pairs of " without resorting to this dinosaur of 7-bit encoding mucking up plain text.It's a very good idea if you consider that it enables us-ascii text to be easily converted to nicely formatted text containing curly quotes pointing in the right directions, which is the reason for the convention.It's a terrible idea. I hate ``this quoting convention" (or alternatively ``this one'') as much as anyone.
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
