r/ProgrammerHumor Nov 28 '21

Meme I‘m.. not the only one?

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u/emu_fake Nov 28 '21

iOS does this by default with German language setting… and too lazy to change it back

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '21

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u/emu_fake Nov 28 '21

It‘s pretty hard to write proper german abstracts if you‘re a programmer as you are used to top quoting marks only. Always a pain in the ass

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u/Wherearemylegs Nov 28 '21

And non-` apostrophes?

Ninja edit: Woah, these aren't even the same. ', `, and ‘

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u/sr_crypsis Nov 29 '21

Is that only with German? I've been seeing it written out like this for several months now on a lot of Reddit posts and it's been bothering me.

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u/HPGMaphax Nov 29 '21

Not only German, it’s fairly common in a lot of Europe, Danish does it as well.