Ahhhh -bad times, when I was still programming for „fun“. Turned me into a „thinking in code“ zombie that had trouble dealing with people. Really turned my autism dial to max.
Every once in a while I’ll try to code something. I’m able to get by if I want. I get bored with it quick though and it doesn’t bring me the same kind of flow buzz mental stimulation it used to.
I’ve gotta say though, the modern web wtf happened?
I need a good 2-3 hours away from the problem before my brain relaxes and I can actually talk without sounding like I'm stoned or mildly autistic.
It’s only really for citations, not ‘scare quotes’.
Their closing quotes look inverted though.
As others already said, the French actually use the guillemets with thin spaces but the Swiss use them without.
But the outward pointing of the guillemets looks really odd to me. I like that the inward pointing guillemets basically scream "look at me, I'm a quoted part!".
I didn't know there was “ AND ”. I hate those fancy/smart quotes. They are not internationally understood and confuse computers and people alike. Just like I wish we would all just speak English, I wish we would all just use """".
Or do you mean the characters? Yes, I am indeed living in the German area and software here often uses those stupid, stupid "smart quotes". I believe we are also taught to write like that on paper. One opens, one closes the quoted phrase. Though I have no idea how this happened here, as right now, in Chrome, I can only produce "normal" quotes. """"