Comment by avgcorrection

The pragmatic thing is to stay glued to the typewriter and then escape our nested strings with Unix toothpicks everywhere.

> Ambiguity: They show when quotes start and end which is quite nice and we can have nested quotes. But these are things that are not critical to meaning and simply make it easier

Typographic conventions go further than that.

In Norwegian it’s `«»` for one level of nesting. For nested quotes you are supposed to use something else. Maybe `‘’` (single quotes) for the second level and then `“”` (American English double quotes).

Maybe American English uses `“”` and then `‘’`.

In my opinion that’s not necessary. At least for text storage.