Quoted speech

[Robert Lauriston]

Braces aka left and right curly brackets are in the ASCII character
set so no problem in HTML.

I assumed the braces were some weird Australian typographical
convention that Theresa was Americanizing. If they're being used in
mathematical formulas or computer code syntax, they should not be
changed.

On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Fred Ridder <docudoc at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, typographic quotes (either single or double) are a problem if you
> restrict yourself to ISO 8859-1.
>
> But Theresa indicated that she also converts curly brackets to some other
> character in the belief that they cause problems in HTML and/or epub. ISO
> 8859-1 does have code points for all four style of brackets/braces, namely
> plain parentheses plus square, curly, and angle brackets/braces. None of
> these should cause any problem, even in a lowest common denominator system.
>
> It's also important to note that the use of straight vs. curled quote marks
> and apostrophes will not cause any significant misunderstanding except in
> the case of computer code. But substituting one type of bracket/brace for
> another is usually a bad idea because these different symbols are
> semantically different, particularly in technical and mathematical contexts.