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On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 08:40:37AM -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote:
> >It's all very nice to call something one doesn't like "political
> >correctness". But FWIW the `Yankee quoting' looks absolutely ugly
> >for "many of us". I guess it's one of those things where there is
> >no clearly better alternative, but instead each one likes what one
> >has been raised with.
>
> Once Perl's default output strings all go to Unicode, then there are
> other quoting alternatives. But in ASCII, or even ISO-8859, you
> don't have anything but `this' for paired quotes--which, mind you,
Please read the referred article. IIRC it points out that 'the pairing
of the quotes' is a historical accident and completely dependent on the
fonts you use.
> look very nice to me.
>
> --tom
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