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On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 12:49:09 +0100, Philip Newton
<pne-news-20011227@newton.digitalspace.net> tried to confuse everyone with this
message:

>On Tue, 25 Dec 2001 21:08:04 +0100, Michael Schierl
><schierlm-usenet@gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> obAscii: 
>> 
>> || \/ ||
>>    /\      (English quotes)
>
>Not quite... those are ASCII quotes. English quotes are more like
>
>    66 \/ 99     or      \\ \/ //
>       /\                   /\
>
>(The second form is how "smart" quotes look like in Courier New, as
>well.)
>
>>    \/ //  
>> // /\      (German quotes)
>
>And those could also be rendered as
>
>       \/ 66
>    99 /\
>
>> \\ \/  //
>> // /\  \\  (French quotes(?))
>
>And there's also
>
>    // \/ \\
>    \\ /\ //
>
>I'm not sure who uses << >> and who uses >> << style, but both are in
>use.
>

<<blabla>> and ,,blabla'' are used in Russia.

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