RE: quotation marks in European languages

From: jarkko.hietaniemi@nokia.com
Date: Tue Jul 30 2002 - 12:28:41 EDT


> Finnish 1: high-9 high-9
> Finnish 2: high-99 high-99

The official primary method is high-99 high-99. Quotations within quotations are then high-9 high-9.
Instead of the high-99 high-99 one can also see the >> >>, especially in fiction literature and older
(pre-computer) texts. Note that in any of these cases the quotation marks are never "mirrored".

Source: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/suomi/lain.html (in Finnish :-),
it contains a nice link (in German :-) about the subject
http://marvin.sn.schule.de/~typoecke/satzz/an_ab.htm



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