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> However, this brings up a more general issue (for Hans, especially).
> The symbol is called a guillemet, a diminutive of Guillaume (Le Be),
> the typographer. It has nothing to do with the French word for word,
> mot. :-)

I guess you are right, but the Postscript Name for this glyph is
eg. guillemotleft, the unicode name (U+00AB) is 'Left Pointing
Guillemet', so guillemot is a slightly reasonable name for that glyph,
even if it is wrong ...


Patrick

PS: Thank you for the lesson, I didn't know that yet.
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