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Old 03-29-2019, 03:10 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by GrannyGrump View Post
Should I use the guillemets (double-angle quotes) I find in the Gutenberg transcription, or should I use the curly lowered/raised quotes (don't know the proper name) I see in the pdf scan?
IMHO, it's acceptable to use the original quotation marks in German poems.

You can use the following entities:

a) curly quotes

Code:
<p>&bdquo;Fahrvergnügen&ldquo;</p>
„Fahrvergnügen“

Code:
<p>&sbquo;Fahrvergnügen&lsquo;</p>
‚Fahrvergnügen‘

Note that German quotations end with what English readers would consider opening quotation marks.

b) guillemets

Code:
<p>&raquo;Fahrvergnügen&laquo;</p>
»Fahrvergnügen«

Code:
<p>&rsaquo;Fahrvergnügen&lsaquo;</p>
›Fahrvergnügen‹

Most German publishers nowadays use guillemets, however, the original Struwelpeter contained curly quotation marks.

Here's a link to a German website that contains hi res scans of the original German book.

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Originally Posted by GrannyGrump View Post
Is either one likely to have problems being supported in reader fonts?
German quotation marks are supported by pretty much all readers and apps. (They're also part of the default Windows-1252 code page.)

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