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词条 Guillemet
释义

  1. Terminology

  2. Uses

      Direction  

  3. Guillemets in computing

      Historical computing use (universal adoption)    Navigation buttons in user interfaces    Guillemet keyboard entry    Encoding    UML    Gmail    Mail merge    Disambiguation    Guillemet vs. guillemot    X Windows  

  4. See also

  5. References

  6. External links

{{for|the seabird|guillemot}}{{Punctuation marks|« »}}Guillemets ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|ɡ|ɪ|l|əm|ɛ|t}}, or {{IPAc-en|ɡ|iː|ə|ˈ|m|eɪ}}; {{IPA-fr|ɡijmɛ|lang}}), angle quotes, angle brackets, or carets, are a pair of punctuation marks in the form of sideways double chevrons (« and »), used as quotation marks in a number of languages. Sometimes a single guillemet ( or ), is used for another purpose. They are not used officially{{clarify|reason=What is "official" English?|date=February 2019}} in the English language, although they are occasionally used to indicate that some text was translated from another language into English for the reader's benefit.[1]

They resemble the double less-than sign (<<) and double greater-than sign (>>), as well as fast rewind and fast forward on various media players.

Terminology

Guillemets may also be called angle, Latin, or French quotes / quotation marks. Unicode exists for single and double guillemets.

Guillemet is a diminutive of the French name {{lang|fr|Guillaume}} (equivalent to English William), apparently after the French printer and punchcutter Guillaume Le Bé (1525–98),[2][3] though he did not invent the symbols: they first appear in a 1527 book printed by Josse Bade.[4] Some languages derive their word for guillemets analogously: the Irish term is {{lang|ga|Liamóg}}, from {{lang|ga|Liam}} 'William' and a diminutive suffix.

Uses

{{See also|Quotation mark#Summary table}}

Guillemets are used pointing outwards («like this») to indicate speech in these languages and regions:

  • Albanian
  • Arabic
  • Armenian
  • Azerbaijani (used alongside "...")
  • Belarusian
  • Breton
  • Bulgarian (rarely used; „...“ is official, but "..." prevails)
  • Catalan
  • Chinese (《 and 》 are used to indicate a book or album title)
  • Esperanto (usage varies)
  • Estonian (marked usage; „...“ prevails)
  • Franco-Provençal
  • French (spaced out by non-breaking spaces « like this », except in Switzerland)
  • Galician
  • Greek
  • Italian
  • Iowans make use of the Guillemet when quoting text that also contains a quote, especially in the Des Moines metropolitan region. E.g. « The governor answered "As I look back on my years of public service, I am thankful for those Iowans who have stepped forward to serve their fellow citizens." ». This practice is a specialization of the traditional French usage and dates back to use by the Iowa Star, now called the Des Moines Register, and is a local shibboleth.
  • North Korean (in South Korea " is used)
  • Norwegian
  • Persian
  • Polish (acceptable and defined to indicate a quote inside a quote by some language standards, but less common. See the main article for details)
  • Portuguese (used mostly in European Portuguese, due to its presence in typical computer keyboards; considered obsolete in Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Romanian; only to indicate a quotation within a quotation
  • Russian, and some languages of the former Soviet Union using Cyrillic script („...“ is also used for nested quotes and in hand-written text)
  • Spanish (uncommon in daily usage, but commonly used in publishing)
  • Swiss languages
  • Turkish
  • Ukrainian

Guillemets are used pointing inwards (»like this«) to indicate speech in these languages:

  • Croatian (marked usage; „...” prevails)
  • Czech (marked usage; „...“ prevails)
  • Danish („...“ is also used)
  • Esperanto (very uncommon)
  • German (except in Switzerland; preferred for printed matters; „...“ is preferred in handwriting)
  • Hungarian (only as a secondary quote, inside a section already marked by the usual quotes)
  • Polish (used to indicate a quote inside a quote as defined by dictionaries; more common usage in practice. See the main article for details)
  • Serbian (marked usage; „...“ prevails)
  • Slovak (marked usage; „...“ prevails)
  • Slovene („...“ and "..." also used)
  • Swedish (this and »...» are rarely used; ”...” is the common and correct form)

Guillemets are used pointing right (»like this») to indicate speech in these languages:

  • Finnish (”...” is the common and correct form)
  • Swedish (this and «...» are rarely used; ”...” is the common and correct form)

Direction

A guillemet is sometimes used to indicate direction, for example:

  • fast forward button on a media player, or fast rewind indicated by the complementary guillemet. However, there are also separate Unicode characters in Miscellaneous Technical block for this meaning: U+23E9 (⏩) and U+23EA (⏪), respectively.
  • a chevron on road signage to show road direction, or multiple chevrons pointing in the same direction for emphasis
  • as an alternative to an ellipsis in a document, for example to indicate additional content. The guillemet is balanced in the spine height of the line for most fonts, so it is more visible than an ellipsis.

Guillemets in computing

Historical computing use (universal adoption)

Historically, French and other languages (see above) used the Guillemet as written speech punctuation. Today the Guillemet punctuates online computing almost everywhere, in countless ways.

HTML code deploys a Guillemet-like "two way" convention. Emulating the single Guillemet in form and function, the paired caret or angle bracket contains online communications code. Both the 'left angle bracket' and the 'right angle bracket' are tag "enclosures" in universal HTML (&lt; < left caret and &gt; > right caret). Universally, paired Guillemet-like speech symbols enclose HTML this way: "this page" , where "this page" is constructed from multiple additional Guillemet-like tags, each tag in turn enclosing additional "content inside content". Computing use of Guillemet-like symbols dates back to the birth of Internet, in France: home to linguistic and scientific cultures associated with the world's first Internet[5], and the Guillemet.

Structurally, the humble 2, those Guillemet-like caret symbols can be compared to the steel members in modern concrete construction. Without correct deployment of the two Guillemet-like symbols, the structure of modern online digital communication cannot exist.

Navigation buttons in user interfaces

Guillemets are often displayed on buttons that enable forward and backward navigation across a set of items (for example in Visual Basic, MS Access, email clients, article comment sections, etc.). Often a guillemet signifies navigation to the first («) or last (») item in a list, while a corresponding single angle (English a single guillemet, French un guillemot unique) signifies navigation to the previous (<) or next (>) item.

Guillemet keyboard entry

Macintosh users can together press {{keypress|opt|\\}} to type "«" and {{keypress|opt|shift|\\}} to type "»" - also, {{keypress|opt|shift|3}} to type "‹" and {{keypress|opt|shift|4}} to type "›". This applies to all English-language keyboard layouts supplied with the Apple operating system, e.g. "Australian", "British", "Canadian", "Irish", "Irish Extended", "U.S." and "U.S. Extended". Other language layouts may differ. In French-language keyboard layouts {{keypress|opt|7}} and {{keypress|opt|shift|7}} can be used. On Norwegian keyboards, {{keypress|opt|shift|v}} for "«", and {{keypress|opt|shift|b}} for "»", can be used.

For users of Unix-like operating systems running the X Window System, creation of the guillemet depends on a number of factors including the keyboard layout that is in effect. For example, with US International Keyboard layout selected a user would type {{keypress|Alt Gr|[}} for "«" and {{keypress|Alt Gr|]}} for "»". On some configurations they can be written by typing "«" as {{keypress|Alt Gr|z}} and "»" as {{keypress|Alt Gr|x}}. These characters are standard on French Canadian keyboards and some others. With the compose key, press {{keypress|Compose|<|<}} and {{keypress|Compose|>|>}} and press {{keypress|Compose|.|<}} and {{keypress|Compose|.|>}}.

Windows users can type 
«Alt + 0171
»Alt + 0187
Alt + 0139
Alt + 0155

Encoding

    ! rowspan="2" width="7%" |    ! colspan="3" | Unicode    ! colspan="2" | Windows code pages    ! rowspan="2"  width="15%" | Character entity reference    ! rowspan="2"  width="25%" | Compose key
    ! width="35%" | Name    ! width="5%"  | hex    ! width="5%"  | dec    ! width="4%"  | hex    ! width="4%"  | dec
«LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK}} U+00AB 0171 AB 171 &laquo;Compose|<|<}}
SINGLE LEFT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK}} U+2039 8249 8B 139 &lsaquo;Compose|.|<}}
»RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK}} U+00BB 0187 BB 187 &raquo;Compose|>|>}}
SINGLE RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK}} U+203A 8250 9B 155 &rsaquo;Compose|.|>}}

Despite their names, the characters are mirrored when used in right-to-left contexts.

Double guillemets are present also in several of ISO 8859 code pages (namely: -1, -7, -8, -9, -13, -15, -16) on the same code points.

UML

Guillemets are used in Unified Modeling Language to indicate a stereotype of a standard element.

Gmail

Gmail offers an orange guillemet as an optional star that can be applied to messages.[6] Gmail also uses single and double angles to denote messages sent directly to the recipient, although it calls them arrows rather than guillemets.[7]

Mail merge

Microsoft Word uses guillemets when creating mail merges. Microsoft use these punctuation marks to denote a mail merge "field", such as «Title», «AddressBlock» or «GreetingLine». Then on the final printout, the guillemet-marked tags are replaced by the corresponding data outlined for that field by the user.

Disambiguation

Guillemet vs. guillemot

In Adobe Systems font software, its file format specifications, and in all fonts derived from these that contain the characters, the word is incorrectly spelled "guillemot" (a malapropism: guillemot is actually a species of seabird) in the names of the two glyphs: guillemotleft and guillemotright. Adobe acknowledges the error.[8]

X Windows

Likewise, X11 mistakenly calls them "XK_guillemotleft" and "XK_guillemotright" in the file keysymdef.h.

See also

{{Portal|Typography}}
  • Bracket
  • Chevron
  • Keyboard (computing)
  • Quotation mark

References

1. ^{{Cite book |title=The X-Men vs. The Avengers #1 |last=Stern |first=Roger |last2=Silvestri |first2=Marc |last3=Rubinstein |first3=Josef |publisher=Marvel Comics Group |year=1987 |publication-place=New York City |pages=9}}
2. ^Character design standards – Punctuation 1
3. ^decodeunicode.org . decode . LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
4. ^Trésor de la langue française informatisé – guillemet
5. ^https://www.correlsense.com/invented-first-internet-mon-dieu-french/
6. ^{{cite web|url=https://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=7190|title=Advanced search|work=google.com}}
7. ^{{cite web|url=https://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=8156|title=How can I tell if a message was sent to just me or to a mailing list?|work=google.com}}
8. ^{{Cite book |author=Adobe Systems Inc. |year=1999 |title=PostScript Language Reference: The Red Book |edition=3rd |publisher=Addison Wesley |isbn=978-0-201-37922-8 |at=Character set endnote 3, page 783 |oclc=40927139}}

External links

{{Wiktionary|guillemet}}{{Commons category|Guillemets}}{{Languages of France}}

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