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Re: Records


  • Subject: Re: Records
  • From: Nigel Garvey <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 20:59:53 +0000

Paul Berkowitz wrote on Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:53:16 -0800:

>On 2/28/01 10:24 AM, "Olof" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> where
>>
>> <right-chevron> is option backslash
>> <left-chevron> is shift option backslash
>
>This is a new one for me. It just seems more confusing, I would have thought
>that
>
> left-chevron is option backslash --pointing leftwards, like <<
> right-chevron is shift option backslash -- pointing right like >>
>
>but I really have no idea if they are named the other way by someone
>somewhere. Is there somewhere particular you got those names, Olof?

I think it's because they're used as quotes in some European languages. I
have a few novels in German, where the characters' speech is rendered
like this:

>>Nein<<, sagte sie kurz und entschieden, >>ich lausche nicht.<<

NG


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