From: Asmus Freytag (asmusf@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Wed May 24 2006 - 10:58:57 CDT
On 5/24/2006 2:37 AM, Otto Stolz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
>> I have never seen any norm or recommendation on it for any language.
>
> For German, it is in §95 of the official orthographic rules,
> <http://www.ids-mannheim.de/reform/regeln2006.pdf>.
>
> I am not sure whether I have said this already on the list,
> or only privately; so here it is again. Sorry, if you have
> read it twice.
>
Even reading it twice, it doesn't cover book usage. Publishers in German
have been using both the double quotation marks as stated in the official
norm, as well as the >>guillemets<< (inward pointing, no space).
[I double checked this with two random books on my bookshelf - the
first had the 'official' style, the second use the guillemets.]
The myopic nature of official regulations like these (and the situation
is not
limited to Germany) is one of the reasons that CLDR is so necessary:
Only a collective research project focused on actually observed usage
can succeed in mapping the use of these characters.
A./
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