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Perhaps an faq, but why the weird quote characters?
by dboreham 2y ago
Perhaps an faq, but why the weird quote characters?
- vanderZwan 2y agoI'm guessing they're using a mobile device with a keyboard that does this automatically.
- doener 2y agoBecause I‘m German and that‘s the way we use them in Germany. So my German mobile keyboard does this automatically, yes. Oftentimes I change it in English messages, sometimes it slips.
- bflesch 2y agoI'm also German and have never seen such weird quotes. Maybe this is some weird windows charset issue but definitely not widespread way of quoting text.
- dxyms 2y agoIt definitely exists in German as well as some other European countries, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark I checked a few German newspapers, some use it, some don’t
- actionfromafar 2y agoI don't know why, but in my browser, the closing quote is showed correctly (forward slanting) in the edit box, but backwards slanting when submitted. Weird. „how“
- vanderZwan 2y agoDifferent fonts, most likely (I can't say for sure because I customized the CSS for HN using the Stylus browser extension)
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- iamacyborg 2y agoWait until you see how the French do quotes
- cyberax 2y agoMandarin Chinese keyboards「have entered the chat」.
- numpad0 2y agoDo Chinese people actually do that? I thought 「」 has ever so slightly different bearing than "" but then again I don't speak Chinese
- cyberax 2y agoSometimes. It's formal, but text autocomplete systems can sometimes insert them. The other form of quotes is similar to English quotes, but looks a bit different.