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Angled double arrowheads used as quotation marks across much of Europe.
Also known as: Angle quotes, Duck-foot quotes, Double arrows used as quote marks, French quotation marks
Pairs of small sideways chevrons. They are the standard quotation marks in French, Spanish, Italian, Russian and much else, and which way they point is itself a national convention that reverses between French and German practice.
Paired marks made of two small chevrons, used to enclose quoted speech in French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Greek and many other languages.
French practice points them outward, enclosing the quotation between « and », and adds a thin space inside each. German practice reverses them, so the same pair encloses the quotation pointing inward.
Direction is a national convention. Neither orientation is a mistake.
France and Germany
Named after Guillaume Le Bé, the sixteenth-century French punchcutter conventionally credited with introducing them.
Two small chevrons side by side, each formed of two short strokes meeting at a point, set on the mid-line.