[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.