Re: which quotation marks to use

On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:

people do in actual coding.) Besides, ” is _misleadingly_ mnemonic to
me, since in my native language, the "right double quotation mark" is used
both as an opening (left) quote and as a closing (right) quote.

And in mine, the "left" one, “ is *exclusively* used as right one:
„Text to be quoted“

Actually, you mostly get away with it anyway, since most browsers really imply
windows-1252, if the document's encoding is not declared or it is declared as
iso-8859-1.

.... which does no harm because the code points where they differ are not
used for anything meaningful in either ISO 8859-1 or Unicode.

I'm not saying that authors should be that sloppy;

They should not, of course. But often, it is advisable to declare
one's own local environment (files, editors, ...) as CP-1252 when it is in
reality ISO 8859-1. If it is indeed pure ISO 8859-1, it makes no
difference; if the same user is sometimes using a Windows PC with CP-1252,
he is still on the safe side. (This is for correct conversion into
non-propriertary codes which then appear in the declarations of (X)HTML
files -- where propriertary codes should be avoided.)

--
Helmut Richter
.

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