Re: Expected behaviour of quotation marks

Florian Rivoal scripsit:

> With very directional characters such as «», if you end up nesting
> them repeatedly it might not be pretty, but it's still clear.

What's more, German uses guillemets in certain contexts, but » is left
and « is right!  This is even worse when mixed with French.
Then there are quotation marks in bidirectional text ....

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Muscle masters brothers / Self-mastery is bone;
Content need never borrow / Ambition wanders blind;
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Received on Thursday, 7 April 2016 05:34:25 UTC