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From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore)
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Subject: Re: ISO Latin-1 Character Set -- quotes versus accents
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Date: Fri, 16-Jan-87 06:20:48 EST
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rbutterworth@watmath.UUCP (Ray Butterworth) writes:
>                Some terminals and printers have begun displaying it
> as a left-quote...					       Judging
> by many of the net articles, this practice seems to be becoming quite
> popular.  (On a standard terminal, the text appears to look more like
> ~~quote'' than what was intended though.  It is quite ugly anyway.)

This is probably due to troff, which is too stupid to be able to tell
whether a " is an opening or closing doublequote, and forces people
to use `` and '' instead.  Maybe SoftQuad (the only people who are
doing development on troff, it seems) will fix this.

[Followups should skip comp.lang.c, they don't care about this!] 
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John Gilmore  {sun,ptsfa,lll-crg,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu   gnu@ingres.berkeley.edu
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