MinEd Quotation Marks Styles (smart quotes)

Use command line option -q=locale to set a specific style, +q=locale to set a standby style (for quick toggling on the Quotes flag), or use just -q or +q to derive a style from the current locale environment.

Style issues

Language-specific notes:

• The alternate/standby style is sometimes used to provide a traditional style (e.g. Dutch, Greek).
• For Arabic, the assumption is that in countries with French influence the French «guillemets» are the preferred style.
• For Greek, a traditional style is provided as standby style; to use an alternate modern style (« Οὗτος ἔφη· “ Ἁδρόν ἐστι. ” »), select Spanish style.
• For Hebrew, the language tag he (or hebrew) triggers a more traditional style (lower opening), while the language tag he_IL triggers a supposedly more modern style (upper opening); in both cases, the reverse closing quotation mark is available as alternate style.
• For Polish, three major styles are described; different styles are triggered by locales pl (with inner single quotes) and polish (with inner guillemets), respectively, and can be selected from the menu.
• For right-to-left scripts, quotation marks are applied in the configured order but appear in right-to-left order, so e.g. Arabic ”…“ will appear like “cibarA”. Note, however, that «angle» quotation marks have the Unicode bidi_mirrored property so each of them will appear mirrored on the terminal; this makes their configuration look like their later appearance, by conincidence of double reversal.

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