Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (beta) now available

[Paige DePol <lual@...>]

On Oct 24, 2014, at 2:57 PM, Richter, Jörg <Joerg.Richter@pdv-FS.de> wrote:

>> Is there any historical reason for that use of the backtick in quotes? 
>> I always found it kind of odd. Does its use came fro TeX ?​
> 
> It is related to old X fonts. See http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html
> 
> - Jörg

That was a very interesting read, thank you for the link!

~pmd