Ben Dougall asked: > On Thursday, May 29, 2003, at 02:10 pm, Philippe Verdy wrote: > > > Interestingly, the French first-level quotation marks use what we call > > "chevrons" (double angle brackets).
> are they something that's in unicode? apart from the less than and > greater than < > symbols i can't see anything like that. Double guillemets: U+00AB, U+00BB Guillemets: U+2039, U+203A In general, when people are interested in classes of characters, like this, a quick trip into the Unicode Character Database is a useful thing to do. In particular, look for the list of characters with the property "Quotation_Mark" in: http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/PropList.txt > thanks for the info. whenever i try and find out about this sort of > thing one thing always becomes very apparent. there's no blanket rules > that apply. at least not obvious, immediate ones. A general discussion of "Language-Based Usage of Quotation Marks" can be found in Chapter 6 of the standard: http://www.unicode.org/book/ch06.pdf --Ken
