directional quotes

[monkyyy]

On Tuesday, 13 August 2024 at 15:42:15 UTC, Quirin Schroll wrote:

> Not all fonts have U+275D and U+275E, not even close.

Can you name one?

> much better suited with chevrons (`«»`), French.

Directional quotes are officially part of the closest thing 
English has to a authority; the newspapers style guides; I think 
your drastically underestimating the support for it in 
native-english because internet-english of course changed to fit 
the keyboard

> won’t find any literal Ää, Öö, Üü, ß in our codebase; those are 
> all `\u00FC` for ü etc. and they’re in `u8""` literals.

Diacritics are a separate debate no? Im unaware of any char 
sequences that combine into quotation marks

> With ASCII, what strings are equal and which aren’t is obvious.

Windows endlines, terminal escapes, the extended character set, 
rare control characters

> I love typographically correct quotes.
> but
> I’m 80% sure this is trolling.

Its great to have your support