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

["G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>]

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At 2021-01-22T10:35:56+0100, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>, 2021-01-22, 14:23:
> > 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...

> > .  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?

Regards,
Branden

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