[whatwg] Quoted (') and (") appear as ('''') and (''''')
Ian Hickson
ian at hixie.ch
Sun Oct 4 23:40:00 PDT 2009
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Øistein E. Andersen wrote:
>
> Printable Unicode characters are referred to in at least five different ways:
> U+003D EQUALS SIGN (<code title="">=</code>)
> U+003D EQUALS SIGN ("<code title="">=</code>")
> U+003D EQUALS SIGN character (=)
> U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS ("-")
> U+003D EQUALS SIGN
>
> Printable ASCII-characters are usually referred to as follows:
> 0x3D (ASCII '=')
>
> The ideal solution would of course be to make this fully consistent — e.g., by
> using the style U+... (<code>...</code>) for Unicode all the time and perhaps
> also 0x... (ASCII <code>...</code>) for ASCII.
>
> Failing that, "'" and '"' (two occurrences of each, excluding an unrelated
> unproblematic instance inside a script) should be changed since they appear
> confusingly as ''''' and '''' in a sans-serif typeface.
Fixed.
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Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL
http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,.
Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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