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by Udo_Schmitz 1736 days ago
DE would be: „Zitat“. »Zitat« is also allowed. «Zitat» is mostly used in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. Note missing spaces compared to French.

(Edited after correction from user bloak below)
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cygx 1736 days ago
DE would be: „Zitat“

I thought you made another mistake here, but it turns out it's just my font that is broken. For anyone else who might have this problem: The closing marks are supposed to go from bottom left to top right, whereas they are displayed going from top left to bottom right :(

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Udo_Schmitz 1736 days ago
Yeah, Hacker News defaults to the Geneva font. Those quotation marks are not pretty :(
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bloak 1736 days ago
> »« is allowed but mostly used in Switzerland

I think it's «...» in Switzerland, while »...« is widely used in several countries, including Germany, and is the "main" system arguably only in Denmark.

See https://jakubmarian.com/map-of-quotation-marks-in-european-l...

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Udo_Schmitz 1736 days ago
You are of course right and I edited my comment accordingly.
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