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>>>>> On Sat, 2 Sep 2000 09:44:37 -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> said:
> 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.
Yes, please read the article. I repeat
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html
> On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 08:40:37AM -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote:
>> 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,
>> look very nice to me.
It's unlikely you say that after reading the article.
Now I guess the question is, would POD be ready to work with U+2018
and U+2019 as an alternative? I fear doing so would open a can of
worms, but probably an interesting can of worms.
--
andreas
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