This page shows how language specific quotation marks are set with CSS and the unicode characters for the typographical quotes used in several languages. The browser should replace the Q-Tags for cites in HTML normally by the quotes used in the language a page is written in, if no language for a quote is given. But most browsers seem to know only one style for quotation marks.
Using CSS allows to have quotation marks which are typographically correct even if the correct marks are not part of the character set, the page is written in (eg latin1).
The CSS here work well for most of the browsers knowing about CSS. Other browsers should render quotes with current quotation marks from HTML code.
Known issues: Neither text browser Links nor IE can render Quotes correctly. So you will see no quotation marks in this page with these browsers.
Note: This page is in work and there may be errors. Especially typesetters, who normally know, which quotation marks are used in printed media, are encouraged to report errors and the correct quotation marks selected from my quotation mark table to jw-dict (at) witch.westfalen.de.
If you want to include css for your own pages, you may look into the source code of this page, to find the css. To include the css in your own pages, follow these steps:
Some sources for more information:
You may not always rely on these sources. To ensure, if the quotation marks are correct, other sources like equivalents to German Duden may be used if they contain information about typesetting and not only handwriting and writing with a typewriter or computer.
If more than one alternative is listed, the first one can be the preferred one for book printing, but you cannot rely on that.
This is a single Quote
. This is an outer Quote containing an
. How you see the quotes here depends on the defaults of
your browser.
inner quote
Here the quotes should show up as italic in any browser supporting CSS. This is a single Quote
. This is an outer Quote containing an
. How you see the quotes here depends on the defaults of
your browser.
inner quote
Se also ARMENIAN CHARACTER SETS and Armenian language support
This is a single Quote
. This is an outer Quote containing an
.
inner quote
Se also Modern Catalan Typographical Conventions
This is a single Quote
. This is an outer Quote containing an
.
inner quote
Alternative 1: This is a single Quote
. This is an outer Quote containing an
.
inner quote
Alternative 2: This is a single Quote
. This is an outer Quote containing an
.
inner quote
Alternative 2 seems to be the preferred one in danish printed media. Thanks to Mr. Lyngholm from Aschhoug Forlag, who asked the Typesetter.
Alternative 1: This is a single Quote
. This is an outer Quote containing an
.
inner quote
Alternative 2: This is a single Quote
. This is an outer Quote containing an
.
inner quote
Alternative 1: This is a single Quote
. This is an outer Quote containing an
.
inner quote
Alternative 2: This is a single Quote
. This is an outer Quote containing an
.
inner quote
Normal English: This is a single Quote
. This is an outer Quote containing an
.
inner quote
US English: This is a single Quote
. This is an outer Quote containing an
.
inner quote
Source: La TTT-ejo de Bertilo
This is a single Quote
. This is an outer Quote containing an
.
inner quote
Finnish page about UNicode usage
Alternate 1: This is a single Quote
. This is an outer Quote containing an
.
inner quote
Alternate 2: This is a single Quote
. This is an outer Quote containing an
.
inner quote
Alternative 1: This is a single Quote
. This is an outer Quote containing an
.
inner quote
Alternative 2: This is a single Quote
. This is an outer Quote containing an
.
inner quote
Alternative 1: This is a single Quote
. This is an outer Quote containing an
.
inner quote
Alternative 2: This is a single Quote
. This is an outer Quote containing an
.
inner quote
Alternative 1: This is a single Quote
. This is an outer Quote containing an
.
inner quote
Alternative 2: This is a single Quote
. This is an outer Quote containing an
.
inner quote
Alternative 1: This is a single Quote
. This is an outer Quote containing an
.
inner quote
Alternative 2: This is a single Quote
. This is an outer Quote containing an
.
inner quote
Alternative 1: This is a single Quote
. This is an outer Quote containing an
.
inner quote
Alternative 2: This is a single Quote
. This is an outer Quote containing an
.
inner quote
Alternative 1: This is a single Quote
. This is an outer Quote containing an
.
inner quote
Alternative 2: This is a single Quote
. This is an outer Quote containing an
.
inner quote
Alternative 1: This is a single Quote
. This is an outer Quote containing an
.
inner quote
Alternative 2: This is a single Quote
. This is an outer Quote containing an
.
inner quote
Alternative 3: This is a single Quote
. This is an outer Quote containing an
.
inner quote
Alternative 1: This is a single Quote
. This is an outer Quote containing an
.
inner quote
Alternative 2: This is a single Quote
. This is an outer Quote containing an
.
inner quote
Alternative 1: This is a single Quote
. This is an outer Quote containing an
.
inner quote
Alternative 2: This is a single Quote
. This is an outer Quote containing an
.
inner quote
Alternative 1: This is a single Quote
. This is an outer Quote containing an
.
inner quote
Alternative 2: This is a single Quote
. This is an outer Quote containing an
.
inner quote
Alternative 1: This is a single Quote
. This is an outer Quote containing an
.
inner quote
Alternative 2: This is a single Quote
. This is an outer Quote containing an
.
inner quote
Alternative 1: This is a single Quote
. This is an outer Quote containing an
.
inner quote
Alternative 2: This is a single Quote
. This is an outer Quote containing an
.
inner quote
Alternative 1: This is a single Quote
. This is an outer Quote containing an
.
inner quote
Alternative 2: This is a single Quote
. This is an outer Quote containing an
.
inner quote
Alternative 1: This is a single Quote
. This is an outer Quote containing an
.
inner quote
Alternative 2: This is a single Quote
. This is an outer Quote containing an
.
inner quote
According to a mail I got lately this part was changed. Ukrainian Language is said to use the same quotation marks as Russian language. Alternative 3 should not be used if inner and outer quotation are next to each other.
Alternative 1: This is a single Quote
. This is an outer Quote containing an
.
inner quote
Alternative 2: This is a single Quote
. This is an outer Quote containing an
.
inner quote
Alternative 3: This is a single Quote
. This is an outer Quote containing an
.
inner quote