On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 10:57:44PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Nice, I like these: ｢｣｢｣｢｣｢｣｢｣｢｣ :) Now I wonder how to type these on a
> keyboard with German keyboard layout. Hmmm, Alt-Gr-S is ſ but that is not the
> same as ｢. Hmmm, did not find it.
I don't know of any preconfigured way to type these; I for one use a Compose
sequence but a more convenient binding could be nice. Especially if we
could agree on something ("Alt-[" ?) and submit upstream to X guys.
'｢'/'｣' are "halfwidth" (ie, normal width) version of Chinese/Japanese
quotes: '「'/'」' which would be problematic in most settings because
support for double-width characters is often lacking.
Among other alternatives, »foo« are worse as their direction is
inconsistent: I was taught »foo« but some countries use «foo», the French
"« foo »", Swedes »foo»; “foo” is unwise to use together with ".
It's nice to have a set of unambiguous quotation marks that are not used by
the shell, so you can quote shell commands without confusion.
On the other hand, I heard Perl6 uses ｢｣ quotes; among their other Unicode
uses, this is the only pair of characters that has seen wide adoption.
Meow!
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