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But where do you start? :)

Even most news outlets can’t even get their micro-typography right in the age of Unicode.

It is ‟Foo”, not "Foo". In languages where quotes are on the baseline, e.g. German, this is even more of an eyesaw. "Spiegel" instead of „Spiegel“ (to make matters worse, the German closing quote is wrong in Verdana, somehow). And let’s not start about - vs. – vs. — or the difference between ... and … (and that you have to put a space before an ellipsis). :)



You start where, to a native speaker, you might not even get what the word means - because u and ü are not nitpicking, but different letters.

Let's take the example of "fordern" vs "fördern" - nothing in common, the former means "to demand" and the latter means "to promote/boost/foster".




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