Re: General Categories Pe, Pf, Pi, Ps

On Sat, Jan 24, 2026 at 5:35 AM Kent Karlsson via Unicode <
[email protected]> wrote:

>  *From:* Unicode <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Jukka
> K. Korpela via Unicode
>
> *Sent:* Friday, January 16, 2026 8:46 PM
>
> …
> > Generally, whether a character is closing, final, initial, or opening
> punctation should be based on language-specific
> > information, such as CLDR.
>
> I would advice against that, since 1) language information is not always
> available, 2) even when available, it is not reliable,
> 3) even when available and correct, people often use their primary
> language’s quotation convention, even for there second/third/… language…
>
I agree

> For quotation marks, it is an unfortunate historical accident that
> different typographic traditions (not languages really) have
> different conventions.
>
Yes -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Summary_table

> For “ambiguous” quote marks (and for that matter apostrophes also when not
> used as quotation marks) and line breaking
> I have proposed an update to the Unicode line breaking rules (not
> language/typographic tradition dependent) in
> https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2025/25261r-line-breaking.pdf.
>
> That should take care of the line breaking issue (very annoying at
> present) for “ambiguous” quote marks.
>
About that, see L2/26-006
<https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2026/26006-utc186-properties-recs.pdf> =
https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2026/26006-utc186-properties-recs.pdf section
4.1 / page 11.

markus

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