Re: Une Question
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, March 9, 2004, 22:12 |
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On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 04:23:32PM -0500, jcowan@REUTERSHEALTH.COM wrote:
> Douglas Koller, Latin & French scripsit:
>
> > How do you handle a quote within a quote in French? In other words,
> > *punctuation-wise*, what do you do with a sentence like:
> > When our teacher told us, "Caesar said, 'Veni, vidi, vici,'" I was
> > utterly flabbergasted.
>
> The Unicode Standard (version 4.0, section 6.2, page 157) says that
> single guillemets are used in that case, pointing outward as usual.
Huh. I didn't even know that single guillemets existed, but there they
are. ‹ is U+-2039 and › is U+-203A.
But hey, as long as the opening delimiter is distinct from the closing
delimiter (which is true in English if you're using the Unicode
repertoire of quotation marks, but not in ASCII), they nest nicely
anyway so you don't even need to change them between levels. ☺
-Mark