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: « « 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: » » 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: ‹ ‹ 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: › › Category: Pf (Punctuation, Final quote) Bidi: ON (Other Neutrals) Character is mirrored