Sébastien Vauban <wxhgmqzgw...@spammotel.com> writes: > Nick Dokos wrote: > > Ben Finney <ben+em...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > >> Nowadays with Unicode available ubiquitously we can simply use the > >> correct typographical quotation marks directly in the plain text > >> file, but TeX and some other legacy systems don't work very well > >> with Unicode. > > I really hate those "smart quotes", better named "dumb quotes",
Again, that's just confusing the terminology, since both “smart quotes” and “dumb quotes” already have connotations. If you want a neutral term for the typographically-correct quotation marks, try “directional quotes”. Here is a discussion of the history of the “`” and “'” usage and why it's a problem <URL:http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html>. -- \ “Please do not feed the animals. If you have any suitable food, | `\ give it to the guard on duty.” —zoo, Budapest | _o__) | Ben Finney
