At 12:44 AM 02/25/2000 -0800, Alex Bochannek wrote:
>In English you
>open whith a high "66" or "6" and close with a high "99" or "9"
>(0x201D and 0x2019).
The use of "66/99" and "6/9" differed between US and UK English. A quote in
USE uses the "66/99" for direct quotes and "6/9" for embedded quotes. In
UKE they are reversed with the "6/9" used for the direct quote and "66/99"
for the embedded quote. Thus what would be printed in the US as (using
typewriter not typographical quotes):
"It was JFK who said 'Ask not what ...'", Joe said.
would be printed in the UK as:
'It was JFK who said "Ask not what ..."', Joe said.
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