A good algorithm has to be even smarter, so that, for example,
...--("this")--... works.Mark __________________________________ http://www.macchiato.com ► “Eppur si muove” ◄ ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Cowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Doug Ewell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Unicode Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "John Delacour" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 09:06 Subject: Re: [OT] Re: `` ", ` ' > Doug Ewell scripsit: > > > Plus, as Michael said, it's not that hard to write software that keeps > > track of matching U+0022's and converts them to U+201C and U+201D as > > appropriate (and likewise for single quotes). > > AFAIK it's not matching that is used, but whether there's whitespace to the > left (initial form) or not (final form). Otherwise, apostrophes would screw > up single quotes. > > -- > John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.reutershealth.com http://www.ccil.org/~cowan > Humpty Dump Dublin squeaks through his norse > Humpty Dump Dublin hath a horrible vorse > But for all his kinks English / And his irismanx brogues > Humpty Dump Dublin's grandada of all rogues. > --Cousin James > >
