Re: ISO standards

At 04:17 PM 23/7/96 -0700, David Perrell wrote:
>Would someone please explain why English quotation marks qualify as
>"numeric and special graphic" and German quotation marks qualify as
>"publishing" entities?

English quotation marks are actually in the entity set Mathematical and
General Symbols, along with guillemets (used in French and otehr European
languages). I have no idea why German quotation marks aren't - presumably
something to do with the likely frequency of use.

Paul Treadaway

Received on Thursday, 25 July 1996 14:01:23 UTC