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A comment on ASCII and Unicode quotation marks. Parent comment

Re:ASCII and Unicode quotation marks by ISL on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @03:16PM (#15241624)
It is, and denotes opening and closing quotes.
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Re:ASCII and Unicode quotation marks by dheera on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @03:35PM (#15241800)
I always hated this horribly inconsistency.

    \left( \right)
    \left{ \right}
    `` ''
Why not

    \left" \right"
    \left' \right'
Better yet, make it completely DRY:

    \( \)
    \{ \}
    \`` \''
    \` \'
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