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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