6 Aug
2004
6 Aug
'04
10:24 a.m.
W liście z pią, 06-08-2004, godz. 15:06 +0100, Malcolm Wallace napisał:
I'm sure that every terminal font I have used since 1987 had quote and back-quote characters rendered symmetrically, until about three years ago, when suddenly both characters became ugly and they no longer balanced. I've been wondering what happened ever since...
The ASCII tradition was ambiguous whether ` is a quote or accent (on low-resolution displays it didn't matter much), and later the ambiguity was resolved in favor of the accent. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html -- __("< Marcin Kowalczyk \__/ qrczak@knm.org.pl ^^ http://qrnik.knm.org.pl/~qrczak/