[Python-ideas] Smart/Curly Quote Marks and cPython

[David Mertz]

This is a nice summary of quotation marks used in various languages:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Specific_language_features

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 9:37 PM, Mikhail V <mikhailwas at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 26 October 2016 at 00:53, Mikhail V <mikhailwas at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 25 October 2016 at 23:50, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
> >
> >>that was kind of a throwaway comment,
> >>but I think it's a LONG way out, but ideally,
> >>the OWTDI would be "curly quotes". The fact that in ASCII,
> >>a single quote and a apostrophe are teh same,
> >>and that there is no distinction between opening
> >>and closing quotes is unfortunate.
> >
> > Yes from readability POV, curly quotes would make
> > sense, and better than many other options, eg. «these».
> > Also from POV of parser this could be
> > beneficial to have opening/closing char (or not?).
> > This only means that those chars should be in
> > ASCII ideally. Which is not the case.
> > And IMO not that now code should allow
> > all characters.
> >
> > Mikhail
>
> Extended ASCII
>
> 145    ‘    ‘    ‘    Left single quotation mark
> 146    ’    ’    ’    Right single quotation mark
> 147    “    “    “    Left double quotation mark
> 148    ”    ”    ”    Right double quotation mark
> 149    •    •    •    Bullet
> 150    –    –    –    En dash
> 151    —    —    —    Em dash
> 152    ˜    ˜    ˜    Small tilde
>
> So we all must repent now and get back to 8-bit charcters.
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