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I believe it's „this“, actually (U-201E to start, U-201C to end), but the distinction between all those quotation marks is hellishly difficult, and I bet native
by microtherion 6y ago
I believe it's „this“, actually (U-201E to start, U-201C to end), but the distinction between all those quotation marks is hellishly difficult, and I bet native speakers get it wrong all the time.
Once upon a time, I wanted to rely on these distinctions in a TTS frontend to distinguish between 5" floppy disk and "Mambo No. 5"
I soon realized that people use quotation marks and dashes in such a random manner that insisting on treating the semantics literally would create more confusion than it would resolve.
Edit: Now that my comment has posted, I realized you used the correct characters, but the font on my browser rendered them in a seemingly incorrect way, so they looked like double primes.
- chrismorgan 6y agoI take great pride in always typing things like 5¼″ and “Mambo № 5” with the exact Unicode scalars that I desire. I love my Compose key. (I have Compose+'+` produce ′ (prime), Compose+"+` produce ″ (double prime), Compose+:+: produce “, Compose+;+; produce ‘, Compose+"+" produce ”, Compose+'+' produce ’, Compose+N+o produce №, and Compose+1+4 produce ¼.)