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On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, DJ Delorie wrote:

> Especially when, in the current ISO-8959-1, ` and ' are not
> symmetrical.  However, you do not want to use " (the inch symbol) when
> you *do* have symmetrical quotes.  See:
>
>     http://www.delorie.com/users/dj/brain/graphics/bits-glyphs/
>
> Reference the bottom, you use (d) quotes when coding, but you should
> use (e) quotes to indicate spoken English.  If you use ` and ', you
> get (a) and (c) quotes.  You *used* to get (b) and (c) quotes, which
> is where the habit started.

There are two errors in (c): one is 0x0x27, the other is that many (if
not most) Windows fonts use a glyph for 0x27 that looks like half of
that for 0x22; in other words, it's a vertical stroke, not a curl.

-- 
Esa Peuha
student of mathematics at the University of Helsinki
http://www.helsinki.fi/~peuha/