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On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 10:01 AM, Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I think those weird quotes come from Macs? Or
someone who learned the quote in the upper left was the proper single
quote. :)
They are definitely not Mac-specific. As I mentioned before, the most
common source of these, until recently, was Microsoft Word (which of
course is available for both Windows and Mac). But the curved quotes
*do* look better, from a typesetting and readability point of view, so
they are becoming common pretty much everywhere, on the Web and off.
The thing in the upper left of a standard QWERTY keyboard (sharing a
key with the tilde) isn't the same thing. In most computing circles,
it's called the "backtick"; it's also commonly called the "backquote",
and the Unicode character it generates is U+0060 "grave accent".
This is completely distinct from U+2018 "left single quotation mark".
However, I will say that old 7-bit ASCII texts (particularly man pages
and other documentation) often did use the backquote character as
though it were a left single quote.
John Y.
midrange.com
