Re: Re: “book end” or <enclosing characters> in most languages?

From: Otto Stolz (Otto.Stolz@uni-konstanz.de)
Date: Wed May 28 2003 - 13:59:42 EDT

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Doug Ewell wrote:

> The actual characters used for these purposes vary, not only by script
> but also by language and even country,

E. g., the very same character,
U+201C LEFT DOUBLE QUOTE QUOTATION MARK, is used
- as opening-quote mark, in English (USA),
- as closing-quote mark, in German (DE).

So, there is not comprehensive list of openers vs. closers possible.

Best wishes,
Otto Stolz

PS. In these tow languages, the quote-marks are paired thusly:
en_US: U+201C ... U+201D, and U+2018 ... U+2019
de_DE: U+201E ... U+201C, and U+201A ... U+2018

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