Subject: Re: international smart quotes?
From: WJCarpenter (bill-abisource@carpenter.ORG)
Date: Fri Jul 21 2000 - 19:52:27 CDT
rob> I think you're going to have to be really careful about what you
rob> refer to as 'English'. I seem to remember reading somewhere that
rob> you Americans and us English have slightly different ideas about
rob> how quoting should be done.
I had assumed so far that in American English, the double quotes were
The Usual ones, but nested quotes were singles (further nesting just
alternates double, single, ....), whereas for UK English and likely
some other variants, single quotes were The Usual ones, but the
nesting still worked by alternating. In other words, the two variants
just start with different quote parity. Is that your understanding?
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