Norwegian (both Norwegian Nynorsk and Norwegian Bokmål) typography
traditionally uses «quotes». In home-made documents, “quotes” or
"quotes" or ”quotes” are occasionally seen, but the cause for this is
the use of non-localised text processing software.
When it comes to nesting, there are two parallel options or usages:
«‹nested› quotes» and «‘nested’ quotes». I personally prefer the first
one, but both are used in professional typhography.
-Herman Ranes
Peter_Constable@sil.org skreiv:
> FYI
>
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> ----- Forwarded by Peter Constable/IntlAdmin/WCT on 07/26/2002 10:18 AM
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>
> The message below was posted on the Ventura newsgroup on the web. I found
> the info about quotation marks in European languages interesting.
>
> --Darrel
>
> Hello,
>
> I started to collect the quote usage of various languages for a friend
> in need. I started with the description in the Unicode standard
> (marked 1) but later found other, contradicting sources as well
> (marked 2). So, I would like to ask you to correct this list with
> whatever language you have completely reliable information about.
>
> I'd also be interested in other typographical rules (punctuation,
> hyphens, dashes, dates, etc.), pointers to such guides (if they are
> available on the net, or some of you are ready to type the data in; I
> sure don't want to buy dozens of books just for this). If you know of
> no site on the net collecting all these pieces of information already,
> I'll be willing to put them on mine.
>
> Please, send your corrections, ideas, contributions etc off the NG,
> directly to me.
>
> Albanian: high-66 high-99
> American English: high-66 high-99 (nested: high-6 high-9)
> Bulgarian: high-66 high-99
> British English: high-6 high-9 (nested: high-66 high-99)
> Czech 1: low-9 high-6
> Czech 2: low-99 high-66
> Danish 1: high-9 high-9
> Danish 2: high-66 high-99
> Dutch 1: high-6 high-9
> Dutch 2: low-99 high-99
> Esperanto: free, usually according to the local rules of the publisher
> Estonian: >> <<
> Finnish 1: high-9 high-9
> Finnish 2: high-99 high-99
> French: << >> (thin space between the text and the guillemets)
> German 1: low-9 high-6 (also >> <<)
> German 2: low-99 high-66
> Greek: << >>
> Hungarian: low-99 high-99
> Icelandic: low-99 high-66
> Italian 1: high-6 high-9
> Italian 2: low-99 high-66 (nested: < >)
> Irish: high-66 high-99
> Latvian: low-99 high-66
> Lithuanian: low-99 high-66 (nested: < >)
> Norvegian 1: high-9 high-9
> Norvegian 2: low-99 high-66 (nested: < >)
> Polish 1: low-99 high-99
> Polish 2: low-99 high-66
> Portuguese: high-6 high-9
> Rumanian: low-99 high-66 (nested: < >)
> Russian 1: << >>
> Russian 2: low-6 high-9 (nested: low-99 high-66)
> Slovakian: low-9 high-6
> Sloven: >> <<
> Spanish 1: high-6 high-9
> Spanish 2: high-66 high-99
> Swedish 1: high-9 high-9 (also >> >>)
> Swedish 2: high-99 high-99 (also >> <<)
> Turkish: high-6 high-9
>
> Bye,
> Gabor
>
> Gabor DEAK JAHN
> Hungarian CVP Forum
> www.tramontana.co.hu/ventura
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Avdeling for teknologi
Telefon +47 73559606 Institutt for elektroteknikk
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