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Date:      Sat, 18 Oct 1997 14:48:29 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Ports)
Subject:   Re: Odd behavior of " (quote) key in StarOffice port
Message-ID:  <19971018144829.NT33941@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95q.971016091941.5286A-100000@Bayou.UH.EDU>; from Jonathan Fosburgh on Oct 16, 1997 09:21:32 -0500
References:  <XFMail.971016014941.dburr@POBoxes.com> <Pine.OSF.3.95q.971016091941.5286A-100000@Bayou.UH.EDU>

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As Jonathan Fosburgh wrote:

> I would imagine the reason is because this is a German software package
> that has been ported to English.  That is a standard German method for
> printing quotes.

I thought these are called »French quotes«, aren't they?

The standard German quotation is ,,like this one'' (normally with
ligatures for ,, and '', but they are absent in ISO 8859-1).

But you're probably right that it's just another way of quotation and
full intention.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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