Hot take: if the punctuation wasn't in the original quotation then putting it in the quotation marks is a lie.https://twitter.com/BrianaReports/status/1303865286165229568 …
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If you tried to reverse the order to "., the . would just fall off the end of the line because it had nothing to attach to
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man I would love a unicode quotation-fullstop
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Proper typesetting programs will line ‘em up like that for you with a .”, but also in principle they could do that just as well with the punctuation on the outside.
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To be a bit more specific you're talking about when printing was first done with physical type in like the 16th century, I don't know that any modern type set worked like that 40 years ago was also a time when printing was done with physical type, lol
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This is one of those weird things that somehow I'm aware of because my father was a type setter before becoming a photo engraver
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