- From: Murray Altheim <murray@spyglass.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 12:09:49 -0500
- To: lee@sq.com
- Cc: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
Lee Quinn <lee@sq.com> writes:
>> To the lasting disappointment of the humorists among
>> us, the name squot was dropped in favor of apos, which occurs in 8879
>> Annex D, set ISOnum, as do the others.
>
>Note that " is a single quote, which does not occur in ASCII.
>(many implementations include a single quote at position 39 instead
>of an apostrophe, but this is in error) [...]
from HTML 2.0 (RFC 1866):
" " " Quotation mark
op.cit., '13. The HTML Coded Character Set':
" Quotation mark
' Apostrophe
Why do you say " is a single quote? ASCII 34 is a double quote.
Murray
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