On 1/22/21 11:07 AM, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
At 2021-01-22T10:35:56+0100, Jakub Wilk wrote:
* G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@xxxxxxxxx>, 2021-01-22, 14:23:
U+2039 and U+203A are "single {left,right}-pointing angle quotation
mark" per Unicode. Their groff special character escapes are \[fo]
and \[fc], respectively. (I don't know the mnemonic that inspired
the "f" in the name.)
"French", I guess:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_quotes#French
Thanks. That's probably true, alas for the poor overlooked Finns,
Swedes, Greeks, Hungarians, Portuguese...
. char \[la] \[Fo]
. char \[ra] \[Fc]
Should be lowercase "f" here.
You're right: we have both kinds--Country _and_ Western!
« \[Fo] u00AB left double chevron
» \[Fc] u00BB right double chevron
‹ \[fo] u2039 left single chevron
› \[fc] u203A right single chevron
[from groff_char(7) in the forthcoming groff 1.23.0]
I don't think I've ever seen URLs bracketed «like this».
On the other hand, because \[Fo] and \[Fc] are in the ISO 8859 character
sets, aren't they much more likely to be supported by the Linux console
driver?
For that same reason we could conclude that <> (less than, greater than)
have even better support :)
I'd use either u2039/A, or plain <>.
Regards,
Alex
Regards,
Branden
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