[m-dev.] `quotes' v.s. 'quotes'

[David Overton]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 03:25:37AM +1000, Robert Jeschofnik wrote:
> On 18-Feb-2001, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > Apparently using `...' for single quotes (`like this') is now officially
> > deprecated <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html> :-(
> 
> I wonder if anyone has told the (La)TeX people. ``curly quotes'' still
> use backticks.

Quoting from the article you reference above:

	The use of 0x60 (grave accent) as a special control character
	in the Unix shell (to denote command substitution as in
	`command` or better $(command)), in Perl, or in TeX/troff (to
	denote a proper left single quotation mark) does not have to
	be changed and remains unaffected.  Donald Knuth's TeXbook
	(chapter 2, page 3, end of second paragraph) has actually
	warned TeX users already since 1986 that the apostrophe and
	grave accent shapes can show up as required by ISO and Unicode
	and not as used in the rest of the TeXbook.


David
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