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>.

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