Re: French quotes treated as parentheses

[Yann Hodique]

On 7/29/06, Sven Axelsson <address@hidden> wrote:
> Right. Other quote symbols do not use paranthesis syntax. And, as
> previously stated, different locales mix and match them in all kinds
> of ways. E.g. in Denmark French quotes are used »like this«, in Sweden
> they are used »like this». In Sweden, double quotes are similarly used
> "like this", whereas in Germany an extra symbol is used „like this".

Also, in France a left french quote is often used to mark the beginning of
each paragraph in a quotation, all of them "closed" by a single right
french quote, so that they are not balanced.

Like in :

 « Something ...
... in a paragraph.
 « Something else ...
... and then the end. »

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Yann Hodique