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UNI-008 · Quotes

The quote that opens at ground level — Germans and Czechs still set it today.

In German, Czech and other central European languages, the quotation opens low and closes high: „Wort“. The low gem is U+201E; the closer is the high curve U+201C.

The mistake it corrects is the doubled comma faking a low quote — two false gems in place of one true one. The entity is „.

Wrong:  ,,Guten Tag'' — commas and apostrophes faking quotes
Right:  „Guten Tag“ — the low one opens, the high curve closes
The German quotation opens at ground level.