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> " is a unit symbol for inch and not a quotation mark Can you think of any reliable source that supports this claim? The printable characters in the original
by boomlinde 13y ago
> " is a unit symbol for inch and not a quotation mark
Can you think of any reliable source that supports this claim? The printable characters in the original standard are defined in a table of glyphs with no other meaning attached to them. In unicode, the corresponding character, U+0022, is defined as "QUOTATION MARK". You're not helping anyone by making things up.
- jonemo 13y agoI remembered reading an article that made the case that computer keyboards evolved from scientific calculators which had the arcmin and arcsec symbols but no use for quotation marks. After thinking about this for a bit and reading Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Non-language_related_usage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Non-language_rel...) I am starting to think that this is wrong. Keyboards obviously mirror the typewriter and not the calculator. Thanks for making me think about this!