On Sunday, 27 January 2019, Asmus Freytag via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote:
> > Choice of quotation marks is language-based and for novels, many times > there are > additional conventions that may differ by publisher. > > Wonder why the publisher is forcing single quotes on them > In theory quotation marks are language based but many languages have had the puntuation and typographic conventions of colonial languages imposed, even when it isn't the best choice. And publishers are following established patterns. The publishers that care about the language do try to distinguish or refine these characters typographically. Andrew -- Andrew Cunningham lang.supp...@gmail.com