left-quote ( ` ) on International keyboards [Prothon]

Michael Piotrowski mxp at dynalabs.de
Mon Jun 7 05:27:32 EDT 2004


"Mark Hahn" <mark at prothon.org> writes:

> I never thought of it being used as an accent mark.  I always thought of it
> as a crummy left-quote.  That explains why it is always drawn so high.

You may want to have a look at

 <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html>

for details.  Personally, I don't think it was a good idea to define
character 0x60 as GRAVE ACCENT, but that's what we have ...

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Michael Piotrowski, M.A.                               <mxp at dynalabs.de>
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