X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-workers-bounces using -f Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 05:05:22 -0700 From: Brian Inglis Subject: Re: setlocal... In-reply-to: To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Message-id: Organization: Systematic Software MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: <4rcku09t3nlh3d9trsjgk4dolotei29eq9 AT 4ax DOT com> <200501161047 DOT j0GAlKTf019772 AT speedy DOT ludd DOT ltu DOT se> <7cglu0lf1umq46r9l1ps73pt3ir57rjjan AT 4ax DOT com> <01c4fc4f$Blat.v2.2.2$9eb38e80 AT zahav DOT net DOT il> <41EB7FB5 DOT 4D458922 AT yahoo DOT com> <200501171509 DOT j0HF9sUc031137 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id j0KC5QMw030967 Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk rOn Thu, 20 Jan 2005 12:13:08 +0200 (EET), Esa A E Peuha wrote: >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. It looks as if Windows TrueType code page 1252 fonts have vertical 0x22 quote " and 0x27 apostrophe ', mirrored 0x60 grave ` and 0xB4 acute ´, as well as mirrored 0x91-92 single ‘ ’, and 0x93-94 double quote “ ” pairs. -- Thanks. Take care, Brian Inglis