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Re: Large language structures

From:taliesin the storyteller <taliesin@...>
Date:Sunday, December 29, 2002, 21:27
* John Cowan said on 2002-12-28 16:48:17 +0100
> Nokta Kanto scripsit: > > Why do different latin > > languages (the spanish <<>> and the german ``,, come to mind) have different > > quotation marks? > > No definite answer can be given, but here's a capsule summary of which > languages use what, from the Unicode Standard: > > Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish: high-9 both opens and closes; guillemets > point to the right.
Norwegian: >>text>>? Never seen it. In print one might run across <<text>> though. Handwriting uses certainly not only high-9s but I write so little by hand now, and when I do I use |"| and |'|, so I don't remember whether it was two low-6 to open and two high-9 to close or two high-6 to open and two low-9 to close. t.