From: Shalom.Bresticker@motorola.com
Date: Sat Sep 14 2002 - 12:25:05 PDT
Precedence: bulk
Thanks, Brad.
Having recently gotten access to the FrameMaker source files,
I have seen that it seems that the use of the quote/accent marks is not
consistent in the standard. For example, there are "regular" quotes and "smart"
quotes, and the use is not consistent.
Shalom
On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Brad Pierce wrote:
> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 18:50:05 -0700
> From: Brad Pierce <Brad.Pierce@synopsys.com>
> To: etf@boyd.com
> Subject: Grave accent -- IEEE 1364-2001 Section 19, first paragraph
>
> 1) In the first sentence of section 19 it is claimed that ASCII value
> 0x60 is called "accent grave". Likewise, in section 2.7.5, it is
> claimed that it is called "open quote or accent grave". Although in
> French this symbol is indeed called "accent grave", the standard name is
> "grave accent".
>
> US ASCII, ANSI X3.4-1986 (ISO 646 International Reference
> Version)
> <http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ascii.html>
> http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ascii.html
>
> 2) In the second sentence there is an empty set of parentheses which
> should enclose an apostrophe.
>
> 3) In the second sentence the phrase "single quote character" should be
> replaced with "apostrophe character" or "apostrophe character used in
> Verilog number base formats".
>
> <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html>
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html
>
>
> -- Brad.Pierce@synopsys.com <mailto:Brad.Pierce@synopsys.com>
>
>
>
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