norman.walsh.name: Comments on /2004/10/04/quoteshttp://norman.walsh.name/2004/10/04/quotes/comments.atom2012-05-22T19:10:54.345663ZComment 1 on /2004/10/04/quoteshttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/09/25/oauth#comment00012004-10-05T12:43:30Z2004-10-05T12:43:30Zjrda39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709

As a Swiss citizen, I can assure you that quotes are normally written as you would expect them. If different quotes are used, it's «this» or sometimes »this« – I don't know the exact typorgraphic convention here, though.

BTW: Enjoy your stay in Switzerland!

Regards
Johann

Comment 2 on /2004/10/04/quoteshttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/09/25/oauth#comment00022004-10-05T16:25:23Z2004-10-05T16:25:23ZDorothea Saloda39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709

Typographical error. I'm mystified as to how it happened; no "smart quotes" engine I'm aware of would produce that. Someone must have decided to do it that way.

Comment 3 on /2004/10/04/quoteshttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/09/25/oauth#comment00032004-10-05T17:24:30Z2004-10-05T17:24:30ZJohn Cowanda39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709

I suspect that whoever typeset that knows that both opening and closing quotes in English are high (as opposed to the German convention of low-9 opening, high-6 closing), but didn't have the proper high-9 available, so used high-6 for both opening and closing. Think of it as typographical Engrish.

Here's a concise summary of quotation rules for various languages:

English/Dutch/Italian/Portuguese/Spanish/Turkish: high-6 to high-9
German/Czech/Slovak: low-9 to high-6, or guillemets pointing in
Danish/Finnish/Norwegian/Swedish: high-9 to high-9, or guillemets pointing right
Hungarian/Polish: low-9 to high-9, or guillemets pointing right
French/Greek/Russian: guillemets pointing out
Slovenian: guillemets pointing in

This is documented on pages 156-58 of The Unicode Standard, Version 4.0, available online as pages 11-13 of http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/ch06.pdf , along with the CJK styles (too complex for this comment).

Comment 4 on /2004/10/04/quoteshttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/09/25/oauth#comment00042004-10-05T19:15:20Z2004-10-05T19:15:20ZMartin Kretzschmarda39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709

Ha! You wrote „this.” Didn't you want to write „this,“ or did you expect Hungarian/Polish style in Switzerland?
I had this “What did they do with the quotes”-feeling in a (dubbed) movie last Friday. It had some text overlays, sometimes quoting like „this” and sometimes like „this!“