On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 13:51:44 +0200, Frédéric Grosshans 
<[email protected]> wrote:

This week’s shady character introduces quasiquotation marks, used in fanzines since 
at least 1944 for “in substance” quaotation. This mark is the superposition of 
" (or ') with -.

http://www.shadycharacters.co.uk/2014/06/miscellany-49-quasiquote/

This looks like a good candidate for unicode encoding, with many discussions in 
the linked blog posts and comment being about recreating it through rich text 
(word processor/CSS/TeX...).

This reminds me of the special quotation marks shown and discussed here (with 
no satisfying conclusion in my opinion):
http://german.stackexchange.com/q/10055/2594

Gerrit Ansmann

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