[Ads-l] "square brackets"

[Mark Mandel]

And (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_punctuation)
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（ ） (U+FF08 FULLWIDTH LEFT PARENTHESIS), (U+FF09 FULLWIDTH RIGHT
PARENTHESIS) are parentheses (round brackets).

There are two kinds of square brackets:

    ［］ (U+FF3B FULLWIDTH LEFT SQUARE BRACKET), (U+FF3D FULLWIDTH RIGHT
SQUARE BRACKET)
    【 】 (U+3010 LEFT BLACK LENTICULAR BRACKET), (U+3011 RIGHT BLACK
LENTICULAR BRACKET)

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*Title marks ( 《…》, 〈…〉, ﹏﹏﹏ )*
    For titles of books, films, and so on, Chinese uses fullwidth double
angle brackets[13] 《…》 (U+300A LEFT DOUBLE ANGLE BRACKET, U+300B RIGHT
DOUBLE ANGLE BRACKET), and fullwidth single angle brackets, 〈…〉 (U+3008
LEFT ANGLE BRACKET, U+3009 RIGHT ANGLE BRACKET). The latter is used when
embedded within the former: 《…〈…〉…》. In Traditional Chinese, single title
marks are also used for articles in or sections of a book whereas
Simplified Chinese used double title marks for all titles. ﹏﹏﹏ (wavy
underline, U+FE4F WAVY LOW LINE) is also used as a title mark.[8][9]
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(Punctuation) Mark



On Sun, Mar 25, 2018, 3:02 PM Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think part of the confusion comes from the difference between British
> and American usage.
>
> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bracket <
> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bracket>
>
>         • (Britain) "(" and ")" specifically, the other forms above
> requiring adjectives for disambiguation.
>         • (US) "[" and "]" specifically - opposed to the other forms of
> which have their own technical names.
>
> Also, I think American hackers frequently use terms that do not conform to
> bracket = [ ], brace = { }.
>
> Benjamin Barrett
> Formerly of Seattle, WA
>

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