Ben Dougall <bend at freenet dot co dot uk> wrote: > does anyone know if characters giving a bracketing function are > universal to most (all?) languages in use today?: any characters, or > groups of chars even, that have an enclosing purpose, like quotes and > brackets?
I think it is safe to assume that most, but not all, language/script combinations (this is important) use some kind of quotation marks and some kind of parentheses. The actual characters used for these purposes vary, not only by script but also by language and even country, and reference guides available in the U.S. often conflict as to which characters are used as first- and second-level quotation marks in Outer Slobovia. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
