Re: Large language structures

* 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.


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