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

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> >
> >are they the right way round? so in german it'd be:
> >
> >otto said „So, there is not comprehensive list of
> openers vs. closers
> >possible.“
>
> Does not look right here. The following is more like it:
>
> „So, there is not comprehensive list of openers vs.
> closers possible.”
>

No, as far as I can tell the original version is the
correct one. Look at it with a font other than Courier New,
which has a rather uncommon glyph for the German closing
quotes. Times New Roman is much more representative.

Lukas

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