RE: [i18n-discuss] The HTML q element can sometimes be useful. Discuss.

It is news to me that a quotation needs to be true. I thought it only needs to represent exact wording. Whether the person actually said it, is irrelevant.

So Bogart never said "Play it again Sam". He said "Play it Sam". 

Both would be quoted and use the q element.

And quotes can be used in a question where the truth is being established: Did you say 'I am guilty'?

Am I mistaken?


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Subject: Re: [i18n-discuss] The HTML q element can sometimes be useful. Discuss.

Sorry, I did not see the reference to 'non-fiction book', but that's not relevant to me. In respect to a book, something quoted is true if it is consistent to the book's universe and if the reader is intended to believe it is true. If the reader is intended to believe that the quoted text is not true, the < q > element should not be used.


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