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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Oct-2024 21:35:32 JST Aral Balkan

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   • Michelle Barker
   • Curtis Wilcox

   @michelle @cwilcox808 > Oh, I absolutely did! The designer in me would never use " for double quotation marks 😆

   Glad to know I’m not the only one :)

   • Michelle Barker (michelle@front-end.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Oct-2024 21:35:33 JST Michelle Barker

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     • Curtis Wilcox

     @cwilcox808
     >my guess is something did that formatting for you, you didn't use an arcane key combination to type open quote, close quote characters

     Oh, I absolutely did! The designer in me would never use " for double quotation marks 😆

     But thank you, this is super interesting to know!

   • Curtis Wilcox (cwilcox808@c.im)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Oct-2024 21:35:34 JST Curtis Wilcox

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     • Michelle Barker

     @michelle
     <q> does a few things:

     It localizes the marks, it will use the marks that fit the `lang` set on a parent element. Add `lang="fr"` to see how the appearance of <q> changes.

     It automatically makes quotation marks "curly" instead of straight. Your article appears to have curly quotes in the text but my guess is something did that formatting for you, you didn't use an arcane key combination to type open quote, close quote characters. <q> uses pseudo-elements to add the right characters.

     Because the curly quote characters aren't a part of the text, they don't get mangled by encoding mismatches (e.g. Unicode vs. Latin-1).

     In languages that use them, it automatically alternates between double quote (") and single quote (') marks for nested quotations; outermost is double, next quote in is single, then inside that is double, and so on.

   • Michelle Barker (michelle@front-end.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Oct-2024 21:35:36 JST Michelle Barker

     I wrote about blockquotes and being bad at HTML https://css-irl.info/ive-been-doing-blockquotes-wrong/