Typography ∩ map porn: a map of Europe by dominant quotation mark styles: jakubmarian.com/map-of-quotati… (red: «x»; yellow: “x”; brown: „x“; green: „x”; blue: ”x”). I didn't realize there were so many.
I have to say, while I find all of «x», »x«, “x”, ‘x’ and „x“ (or even ‹x›, ›x‹ and ‚x‘ if anyone wants to use that), as well as "x" and 'x', equally fine, my sense of symmetry is greatly disturbed by styles such as „x” and ”x”. But it's a free world!¹
1. Restrictions apply.
1. Restrictions apply.
At any rate, this certainly explains why Unicode characters for quotes (U+00AB LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK and so on) are NOT mirrored when used right-to-left, unlike parentheses.
Correction regarding the previous tweet: «x»-style quotation marks ARE mirrored in Unicode, it's the “x”-style ones that aren't.
https://twitter.com/gro_tsen/status/1339633420117401601
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