From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2004-06-11T20:28:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Smart Quotes


"Aaron Schrab" <aaron@schrab.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:20040611001516.GA11137@frell.qqx.org...
> At 02:19 +0900 11 Jun 2004, Aredridel <aredridel@nbtsc.org> wrote:
> > If you speak English and the smart quotes are one byte, then iso-8859-1
> > is for you. If they're two bytes, then UTF-8 is the character set that's
>
> This is wrong.  ISO-8859-1 doesn't include smart quotes.  You're likely

Can we please stop writing "smart quotes" when we in fact mean "matching
quotes" or "opening and closing quotes"?  IMHO smart quotes do not denote
certain characters but a feature of software, namely that the software
inserts matching opening and closing quotes of the user's language
convention whenever the user enters double / single quotes.

From this it's immediately clear that there is no single pair of "smart
quotes" but a whole bunch of different character pairs that are inserted
whenever certain pieces of software think they should replace other quotes
entered by the user.

Thanks!

Kind regards

    robert