ASCII quotes removal (was Re: Charts (rough cut))

Marcel Schneider via CLDR-Users cldr-users at unicode.org
Thu Aug 23 17:28:51 CDT 2018


I fully agree that the ASCII quotes should not be included in any locale punctuation, and have filed 
ticket #11378 about that topic.

http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/11378

I guess that their widespread presence across locales could eventually be due to the English example 
provided in the information hub for linguists (please see links to By-Type charts at the end of the 
Description part of the cited ticket, and the Xref at the bottom of the body).
 
As a remedial I’ve suggested to draw the attention of all vetters, at least in Latin script, to this topic, 
asking people to focus on reviewing punctuation keeping in mind that following a new guideline yet 
to set up, ASCII punctuation is referenced by default on a fallback basis and is not locale-specific. The 
exemplar punctuation set should be streamlined for publishing, as it is needed for user interfaces.

All vetters being supposed to monitor this list, I think it could be a good idea to get familiar with 
the scheme, that isn’t new for some locales, but still would be so for many others. 
 
> > We don't include ' and " in the regular punctuation, because they are rarely the preferred form for display. 
> The point of the ASCII single and double quotes among others made me think and file ticket #11343
> suggesting to remove them […] (should be another ticket, will post and Xref)

That is the abovementioned 
http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/11378



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