The discussion made me wonder why quotes need to be quoted...
The problem is, as far as I can see, the only reason why you would want to quote quotes, in within html-tags and especially links. But, at least within links, that is not correct at all... Why?
First example:
<A href='page?a=@a@&b=@b@'>
As you see, I'm using single quotes. This is perfectly legal, and often usefull because single quotes do not have any special meaning in Tcl. For example:
<%="
This is a text where some values like this one $var1 will be inserted automatically [funca]
<A href='page?a=${var2}&b=[funcb]'>blablbalbablablabl</A>
"%>
Because of this property, I've learned myself to write html using single quotes and so I can code adp like above in all my vanilla AOLserver code.
So, do we want to quote ' too? It would solve the problem.
Second example:
<%
# For simplicity of example, would normally be done in .tcl file
set name "Daniël Mantione"
%>
<A href='page?name=@name@'>blablablablablabla</A>
Whoops! Afaik, an URL should in all situation consist of standard US-Ascii. It is no solution to quote, ë won't work in a URL.
What should be done instead? This is, of course, ns_urlencode.
This is true in any situation where a variable is being expanded within a tag attribute that specifies a URL. (I.e. A href, IMG src, LINK href etc...)
Unless there is another reason to quote ", the entire reason why it should be quoted is bogus...
