Re^7: INS, DEL, Q tags now allowed in posts

Really, the exact quoting behavior shouldn't be left up to the HTML standard, but to your specific locale. Under en-US, nested quotations should alternate double quotes and single quotes. However, it's perfectly reasonable that another locale does it completely differently.

I must say, the <q> tag is a really good idea, especially when you start thinking about the web as one big database. Wish browsers supported it better . . .

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Re^8: INS, DEL, Q tags now allowed in posts by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Aug 10, 2004 at 15:11 UTC
No, actually, the locale should only be a fallback. It really should depend on the language specified in the Q tag. For instance, `<q lang="fr">` should render with Ť...ť style quotations. If the Q tag does not specify a language, then what should matter is the language declared for the page as a whole. Only if such a declaration is missing should the locale be used. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]

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Re^8: INS, DEL, Q tags now allowed in posts
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Aug 10, 2004 at 15:11 UTC

No, actually, the locale should only be a fallback. It really should depend on the language specified in the Q tag. For instance, <q lang="fr"> should render with Ť...ť style quotations. If the Q tag does not specify a language, then what should matter is the language declared for the page as a whole. Only if such a declaration is missing should the locale be used.

Makeshifts last the longest.

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