Closed elmimmo closed 11 years ago
The "foreign" language support for MMD was based on the international versions of Gruber's SmartyPants.pl program.
Multiple French and French-Canadian users of MMD have not reported to me that things are incorrect. The absence of complaints is not the same as confirmation of being correct, but it's all I have at the moment.
Many things about other languages looks "weird and unbalanced" to me, so I will need something a bit more convincing for me to change the code (since it has basically been in use for 4+(?) years without me being mobbed by the French). But certainly I am open to corrections if necessary.
As I am not native French I have nothing else to bring this issue forward. Thank you for the explanation.
Hi,
https://github.com/fletcher/peg-multimarkdown/blob/master/utility_functions.c#L361 (commit a9a6e1f38a) assigns an Apostrophe (Unicode name) as an opening single quote for texts in French, instead of a Left Single Quotation Mark (Unicode name), while the closing single quote is indeed assigned to a Right Single Quotation Mark (Unicode name).
Do you have a reference for Apostrophe being the correct character for opening single quotation mark in French?
It looks weird and unbalanced to me. Yet, I am not French native, and could not find anything in Wikipedia explaining what the proper character is (Non-English usage of quotation marks. French, or in any other source (in English or Spanish) that I tried. I did found HTML authoring in French (the correctness of which I cannot tell) which explicitly calls against it: