Re: Expected behaviour of quotation marks

On 4/7/2016 1:12 AM, Dave Cramer wrote:
> There's a mention of this in the CSS Generated Content Spec at [1]. 
> See example 9 and the preceding note:
>
>     If a quotation is in a different language than the surrounding
>     text, it is customary to quote the text with the quote marks of
>     the language of the surrounding text, not the language of the
>     quotation itself.
>
>
> This text was inherited from a very old version of this spec. I'll be 
> happy to update based on the result of this discussion.
>
That language appears to be just fine.

While people do make exceptions for effect, the default seems to be what 
your spec notes. For generated text, aiming at the "customary" default 
would seem desirable.

A./

Received on Thursday, 7 April 2016 14:40:18 UTC