On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 10:30:08AM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 12:20:36AM +0100, Jutta Wrage wrote: > [...] > > For the quotes, I have done a completely new page on my web-site: > > > > http://www.witch.westfalen.de/csstest/quotes/quotes.html > > > > This page contains all quotation marks, I have found somewhere > > (mostly Wikipedia) for now. To do that, I had to remove the language > > from html header and I hope, that works for everyone. > > > German l10n group has already decided, which quotation mark > > alternative to take in a first step. For the other languages, I will > > add the first alternative, if there are more possibilities and you > > have no objections. > > Found in > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Angled_quotation_marks_in_various_European_languages > > Some languages, such as French or Italian, use angle quotation marks > (chevrons or guillemets or duck-foot quotes) and add a quarter-em > space (officially) (U+2005,  ) within the quotes. However, > virtually all countries that have this rule now use the non-breaking > space, because the difference between a non-breaking space and a > four-per-em is virtually imperceptible, and the quarter-em is > virtually always omitted in non-Unicode fonts. Even more commonly, > people just put a normal space between the quotation marks because > the non-break is not accessible through their keyboard layout. [Note: > full-width non-breaking spaces have been used in examples for > technical reasons]
I have done some work on X keyboards, I did the main stuff for da, sv, no fi keyboards. We could ensure that the characters needed are available easily on each respecitve national keyboard. I am also involved in ISO keyboard standardisation (SC35/WG1) and via that channel I got the info that the EU are asking for a specific set of characters to be available for inputting for all public service desks in the EU. I would like to look into that. Also, I am involved in a new standard for describing keyboards. I would like to have some machine parsable format, probably in XML, and then with conversion tools to X and others. Could somebody help me with writing such a standards spec? Best regards keld -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
