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Con­text sen­si­tive quo­ta­tion fa­cil­i­ties
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Fix Dutch quotation style #64

Closed phknot closed 1 year ago

phknot commented 1 year ago

Quoting with lower quotes is a very old-school way of quoting in the Dutch language. Following convention set by Onze Taal: https://onzetaal.nl/taalloket/aanhalingstekens-en-leestekens

AlMa1r commented 5 months ago

But Wikipedia says, «The standard form in the preceding table is taught in schools and used in handwriting. Most large newspapers have kept these low-high quotation marks, „ and ” […]». If this is true, then the low-high quotation marks is the school way, and not a “very old-school way”, and most large newspapers take it. So the user must be given a choice.