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From: Alan BRASLAU <alan.braslau@cea.fr>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: \quote
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 12:59:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201011041259.38036.alan.braslau@cea.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CD29D60.6050908@FU-Berlin.DE>

On Thursday 04 November 2010 12:47:44 Herbert Voss wrote:
> the documation says, that \quote gives a single quote.
> Why do I get a double one for french?
> 
> \starttext
> \language[nl]\quote{Nederlandse},
> \language[en]\quote{English},
> \language[de]\quote{Deutsch} oder
> \language[fr]\quote{Fran\cc ais}.
> \stoptext
> 
> mkiv/TeXLive2010
> 
> Herbert

I do not know what is the correct usage in French,
but single guillemets do exist in unicode:

$ unicode guillemet

U+00AB LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
UTF-8: c2 ab  UTF-16BE: 00ab  Decimal: &#171;
«
Category: Pi (Punctuation, Initial quote)
Bidi: ON (Other Neutrals)
Character is mirrored

U+00BB RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
UTF-8: c2 bb  UTF-16BE: 00bb  Decimal: &#187;
»
Category: Pf (Punctuation, Final quote)
Bidi: ON (Other Neutrals)
Character is mirrored

U+2039 SINGLE LEFT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
UTF-8: e2 80 b9  UTF-16BE: 2039  Decimal: &#8249;
‹
Category: Pi (Punctuation, Initial quote)
Bidi: ON (Other Neutrals)
Character is mirrored

U+203A SINGLE RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
UTF-8: e2 80 ba  UTF-16BE: 203a  Decimal: &#8250;
›
Category: Pf (Punctuation, Final quote)
Bidi: ON (Other Neutrals)
Character is mirrored

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-04 11:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-04 11:47 \quote Herbert Voss
2010-11-04 11:59 ` Alan BRASLAU [this message]
2010-11-04 12:20   ` \quote Thomas A. Schmitz
2010-11-04 13:57     ` \quote Khaled Hosny

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