Ben Dougall schreef: > the reason i said that bit is html and xml (i know they're not human > languages and they're certainly not in the area i'm asking about)
So you were not talking about computer languages and I don't need to point out Pascal's (* *) and C's /* */ delimiters for comments? OK... > i wondering is there any language that uses of more than > one glyph for an open or close, like in xml and html? they > have a group of characters that together mean open or close I seem to recall it was perfectly normal for typesetters to use two single quotes instead of one double quote. So citations would be entered ''like this'' instead of "like this". That's two characters each. And there is of course the colloquial habit of speaking the words quote and unquote to delimit a citation. These words making up 5 and 7 characters, respectively. Pim Blokland
