Re: [PATCH] posix.py: ffix: Correctly format URIs

On 1/22/21 11:07 AM, G. Branden Robinson wrote:

At 2021-01-22T10:35:56+0100, Jakub Wilk wrote:

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* G. Branden Robinson [off-list ref], 2021-01-22, 14:23:

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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...

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.  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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