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Documenting gaps and requirements for support of Indic languages on the Web and in eBooks.
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Devanagari: 3.9 Quotations - Quotation marks are non-native to Devanagari - verify usage, gather specimens #29

Open alolita opened 6 years ago

alolita commented 6 years ago

https://w3c.github.io/iip/gap-analysis/deva-gap.html#quotations

Quotation marks (e.g blockquotes) should not be used in Devanagari. Traditionally, quotation marks have never used in hand-written text, or native usage. However, some DTP apps may provide support for quotation marks and may have proliferated use of quotation marks in print publications.

If quotation marks are being used, they need to be documented with specimens of usage.

Call for action: Need specimens of published text in Devanagari using quotation marks. Please add to this issue.

r12a commented 6 years ago

How does devanagari traditionally indicate that a piece of text is quoted from elsewhere? Is it done by the language, or are there other types of punctuation marks or mechanisms involved?

r12a commented 6 years ago

Fwiw:

Here's an example of quote marks from Wikipedia

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The following is from a Nepali newspaper (Kantipur, Nepali National Daily, 23 Dec 2005): 1538393341769