Re: apostrophe, grave, quotes

[Markus Kuhn <mgk25@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Henry Spencer wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Markus Kuhn wrote:
> > Details and background information (also for forwarding to others who
> > routinely make the same mistake):
> >   http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/apostrophe.html
>
> One quibble:  use of 0x60 as opening single quotation mark was not some
> random whim of font designers, but was actually specified by earlier
> versions of the ASCII standard.  For example, X3.4-1977 (which is what I
> happen to have on hand) says that 0x60 is Opening Single Quotation Mark,
> with Grave Accent only a secondary meaning.  Yes, this usage is obsolete,
> but it was legitimate in its day.

That's a slightly seperate issue, but, surprise :-), I have a web page
on that one too

  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html

where ANSI X3.4 is quoted. Note however that this is only one national
standard, whereas for instance ECMA-6 didn't mention the dual-use as
directional quotation marks even back in its first edition in 1965 and
European manufacturers (Siemens, Nixdorf, etc.) followed the ECMA standard
in their terminal and printer founts.  ECMA-6 did however suggest that
APOSTROPHE could also serve as an acute accent.

  ftp://www.ecma.ch/ECMA-ST/ECMA-006.psc

Markus

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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Email: mkuhn at acm.org,  WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>


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