[nsxwolf]

Is ,comma-backtick` some personal quirk of yours, or is it some standard I'm not aware of?

[loeber]

European quotation marks commonly have the left one down low and the right one up high. The same applies for single quotes. But using comma-backtick is deeply unorthodox.

[sph]

Germany != Europe.

The French use « », Italians use ‘regular’ “quotes”, etc.

Strangely enough, this is the first time I see your style of quote, in two decades on the Internet.

[lock-the-spock]

https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/formex/physical-...

[replwoacause]

Yeah I’m surprised at how rare this is to see. I guess that means all Germans don’t follow this convention?

[illiac786]

I believe it should be double, „like this“, not single quotes.

[helboi4]

Other countries use it too. I'm pretty sure that Spain does.

[NoInkling]

Nope, Spain uses « » (though mostly only in formal writing these days) or English-style quotes.

[fredoliveira]

> European quotation marks commonly have the left one down low and the right one up high

Wouldn't say it's "common", because IIRC that's only the case in Germany and Austria.

[FinnKuhn]

however in German you would use two tick quotation marks like „this".

[pitkali]

Also in Polish, actually.

[Jenda_]

And some others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Summary_table

[replwoacause]

Interestingly, the author does not follow this convention on his personal site (first link in profile) … instead option for the ‘single quote’ form instead.

[lock-the-spock]

To give a definite answer to the discussion below - it seems Czech, Slovak, German, Slovenian and Croatian sometimes use this format. Here an authoritative source: the EU publications office:

https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/formex/physical-...

[tcmb]

It‘s what my phone made out of two presses of the same (single quote) button.

[stavros]

It's ‚comma-apostrophe‘, actually.

[godelski]

,comma-apostrophe'? Only place I've see the backtick used for apostrophe is latex. And even then half the people don't know about it.

[stavros]

Sure, but there's no backtick in the GP's comment. Only an apostrophe.

[godelski]

Wait what? I see

,comma-backtick` whereas I wrote ,comma-apostrophe'

I copy pasted both btw. You see them both as '? I see GP as having ` and me having '

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backtick

[stavros]

tcmb used ‚comma-apostrophe‘. nsxwolf asked "Is ,comma-backtick` some personal quirk of yours, or is it some standard I'm not aware of?"

I'm pointing out that nsxwolf was wrong to ask about comma-backtick, because tcmb used comma-apostrophe.

[roryokane]

Both are wrong. tcmb didn’t use ‚comma-apostrophe’ – they opened with , U+201A SINGLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK (not U+002C COMMA) and closed with ‘ U+2018 LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK (otherwise known as an open single quotation mark).

This matches the German convention described on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#German.