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Makes it even harder that some languages use straigth quotes as the gold standard – so whether to curve them or not is language dependent.

• zokier 4y ago
  Which languages prefer straight quotes? Wikipedia doesn't mention any: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark
  • GoblinSlayer 4y ago
    Looks like hair splitting to me, they are all interchangeable. Apparently I used Dutch an Danish variants and nobody ever batted an eye. Cursive quotes look like just cursive version of straight quotes, you can't possibly differentiate them.
  • bloak 4y ago
    Quotation marks arguably depend on the country more than on the language, so Switzerland quotes like «this» in French, German and Italian, while the Germans, at least, don't quote like that. It seems that Sweden and Finland use the same character for opening and closing quotes, like ”this”, which is similar to using straight quotes.
  • GolDDranks 4y ago
    I was going to say "Finnish" (that's my native language), but to my surprise, after checking it, we use "”" after all. (We use that both as the opening and closing quotation mark.)