- 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 ``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` Murray Altheim, Program Manager Spyglass, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts email: <mailto:murray@spyglass.com> http: <http://www.cm.spyglass.com/murray/murray.html> "Give a monkey the tools and he'll eventually build a typewriter."
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