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Re: [Groff] Apostrophe mapped onto single closing quotation mark
From: |
Ralph Corderoy |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] Apostrophe mapped onto single closing quotation mark |
Date: |
Fri, 04 May 2012 12:28:27 +0100 |
Hi Tadziu,
> [*] But I really prefer computer code typeset with "balanced" right
> and left single quotes. The character at ASCII position 60h was often
> called "backquote" for the simple reason that it really was a
> symmetrical version of the "quote". This was very common on UNIX
> systems before Unicode became the rage, as many fonts were encoded
> with Adobe's ISOLatin1Encoding, which had a real right quote at
> position 27h, and a real left quote at position 60h.
Agreed. The problem with switching U+27 for another glyph is it messes
up cut-and-paste. Could a PDF specify a normal font with the
modification of a sexy right single quote copy to U+27? And for the web
we have web fonts, so a page could specify a doctored one for those?
Cheers, Ralph.