Subject: Re: language-based smart quotes
From: WJCarpenter (bill-abisource@carpenter.ORG)
Date: Thu Jul 20 2000 - 23:49:03 CDT
koh> Sorry, in Norwegian, «» should be used, but Norwegian keyboard
koh> doesn't have keys for them. You have to type Alt+0171 and
koh> Alt+0187 to use them.
Wow, that must be extremely inconvenient. Are Alt+0171 and Alt+0187
the normal quotes for Norwegians, or are they just used in a formal or
fancy context (similar to English curly quotes)?
koh> Ufortunately, there's also a bug in the Norwegian version of MS
koh> Word 97, which uses 99quote99 (where 99 is the 99-like curly
koh> quote) for smart quotes (this is the way Swedish quotation marks
koh> should be written, not Norwegian). Word 6.0 correctly inserted «
koh> and ».
Do you mean that for Swedish, the open and close curly quotes both
look the same and would be what an English writer would consider to be
closing quotes?
koh> Yes. Having this [language/LOCALE] on the right click context
koh> menu would also be nice (perhaps a list of the 3-5 most used
koh> languages).
For things like this, where there is a long list but you might only be
using a few, I rather like what recent versions of MSWord do when you
do font changes. It puts the fonts you've been using at the top of
the menu so that it is easier to switch back and forth without having
to scroll a long menu.
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