← Back to context Comment by NuclearPM 14 days ago > „popularity“Why are you using weird quotes? 6 comments NuclearPM Reply evilduck 14 days ago I'll take a wild guess and assume they are of a German or Polish language background. Wait 'til you encounter a French person who accidentally uses guillemets if you want one even «weirder». robin_reala 14 days ago Or the Nordics ”like this” or the UK ‘like this’ or Japan 「like this」. Basically every country has their own standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Summary_table keane 14 days ago This is why the <q> element exists which enables locale-aware quotation marks: https://w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/questions/qa-the-q-element... :root:lang(en) { quotes: '“' '”' '‘' '’' } :root:lang(fr) { quotes: '«' '»' '«' '»' } :root:lang(fr-CA) { quotes: '«' '»' '‹' '›' } q:before { content: open-quote; } q:after { content: close-quote; } There's currently 26 quotation mark varieties by default (in Firefox): https://searchfox.org/firefox-main/source/intl/locale/cldr-q... which are sourced from the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository: https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/tree/main/common/main FabCH 14 days ago Correct. Swiss German keyboard. NuclearPM 14 days ago Thanks! bigbossg72 6 days ago No
evilduck 14 days ago I'll take a wild guess and assume they are of a German or Polish language background. Wait 'til you encounter a French person who accidentally uses guillemets if you want one even «weirder». robin_reala 14 days ago Or the Nordics ”like this” or the UK ‘like this’ or Japan 「like this」. Basically every country has their own standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Summary_table keane 14 days ago This is why the <q> element exists which enables locale-aware quotation marks: https://w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/questions/qa-the-q-element... :root:lang(en) { quotes: '“' '”' '‘' '’' } :root:lang(fr) { quotes: '«' '»' '«' '»' } :root:lang(fr-CA) { quotes: '«' '»' '‹' '›' } q:before { content: open-quote; } q:after { content: close-quote; } There's currently 26 quotation mark varieties by default (in Firefox): https://searchfox.org/firefox-main/source/intl/locale/cldr-q... which are sourced from the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository: https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/tree/main/common/main FabCH 14 days ago Correct. Swiss German keyboard. NuclearPM 14 days ago Thanks!
robin_reala 14 days ago Or the Nordics ”like this” or the UK ‘like this’ or Japan 「like this」. Basically every country has their own standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Summary_table keane 14 days ago This is why the <q> element exists which enables locale-aware quotation marks: https://w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/questions/qa-the-q-element... :root:lang(en) { quotes: '“' '”' '‘' '’' } :root:lang(fr) { quotes: '«' '»' '«' '»' } :root:lang(fr-CA) { quotes: '«' '»' '‹' '›' } q:before { content: open-quote; } q:after { content: close-quote; } There's currently 26 quotation mark varieties by default (in Firefox): https://searchfox.org/firefox-main/source/intl/locale/cldr-q... which are sourced from the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository: https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/tree/main/common/main
keane 14 days ago This is why the <q> element exists which enables locale-aware quotation marks: https://w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/questions/qa-the-q-element... :root:lang(en) { quotes: '“' '”' '‘' '’' } :root:lang(fr) { quotes: '«' '»' '«' '»' } :root:lang(fr-CA) { quotes: '«' '»' '‹' '›' } q:before { content: open-quote; } q:after { content: close-quote; } There's currently 26 quotation mark varieties by default (in Firefox): https://searchfox.org/firefox-main/source/intl/locale/cldr-q... which are sourced from the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository: https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/tree/main/common/main
I'll take a wild guess and assume they are of a German or Polish language background. Wait 'til you encounter a French person who accidentally uses guillemets if you want one even «weirder».
Or the Nordics ”like this” or the UK ‘like this’ or Japan 「like this」. Basically every country has their own standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Summary_table
This is why the <q> element exists which enables locale-aware quotation marks: https://w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/questions/qa-the-q-element...
There's currently 26 quotation mark varieties by default (in Firefox): https://searchfox.org/firefox-main/source/intl/locale/cldr-q... which are sourced from the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository: https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/tree/main/common/main
Correct. Swiss German keyboard.
Thanks!
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