- From: r12a via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 11:39:10 +0000
- To: public-i18n-archive@w3.org
> I’m not very sure about using ```<span>``` instead of actual quotation marks i often wondered about this, too, but am thinking recently that it's better to supply the quotes with CSS because it gives greater typographic control and because it makes localization easier. An example of typographic control would be to add small spaces between German quotations marks and the text quoted, or indeed to change the quotation marks in use (say for example you want to follow the typical British model rather than the US model, or vice versa – it's easy to change throughout). This ability to change all quotation marks is also useful when localising, of course, especially if there is also markup around the text. It avoids lots of fiddling and potentially incorrect nesting of quotation marks by the translator. -- GitHub Notification of comment by r12a Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/alreq/issues/13#issuecomment-165077903 using your GitHub account
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