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Learn How to Use Quotation Marks in Germany and Austria

What is the “left quote” in English is used as the right quote in Germany and Austria, and a different “low 9 quote” is used for the left instead:

Samples Unicode (decimal) HTML Description
‚O‘ U+201A (8218), U+2018 (8216) ‚ ‘ German single quotes (left and right)
„O“ U+201E (8222), U+201C (8220) „ “ German double quotes (left and right)

This style of quoting is also used in Georgian, Estonian, Icelandic, Bulgarian (the single quotes are not used), Romanian and in Russian.

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