ISO Latin-1 Character Set -- quotes versus accents
John Gilmore
gnu at hoptoad.uucp
Fri Jan 16 21:20:48 AEST 1987
rbutterworth at watmath.UUCP (Ray Butterworth) writes:
> Some terminals and printers have begun displaying it
> as a left-quote... Judging
> by many of the net articles, this practice seems to be becoming quite
> popular. (On a standard terminal, the text appears to look more like
> ~~quote'' than what was intended though. It is quite ugly anyway.)
This is probably due to troff, which is too stupid to be able to tell
whether a " is an opening or closing doublequote, and forces people
to use `` and '' instead. Maybe SoftQuad (the only people who are
doing development on troff, it seems) will fix this.
[Followups should skip comp.lang.c, they don't care about this!]
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