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evilduckyesterday at 2:27 PM2 repliesview on HN

I'll take a wild guess and assume they are of a German or Polish language background. Wait 'til you encounter a French person who accidentally uses guillemets if you want one even «weirder».


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robin_realayesterday at 2:36 PM

Or the Nordics ”like this” or the UK ‘like this’ or Japan 「like this」. Basically every country has their own standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Summary_table

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FabCHyesterday at 3:52 PM

Correct. Swiss German keyboard.

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