Punctuation reader. Quotation marks are particularly variable across European languages. For example, in French and Russian, quotes would appear as: (in French, each "double punctuation", as the guillemet, requires a non-breaking space; in Russian it does not). In French of France, the signs : ; ? and ! are always preceded by a thin unbreakable space. In Canada, this is only the case for :. In Greek, the question mark is written as the English semicolon, while the functions of the colon and semicolon are performed by a raised point , known as the (). In Georgian, three dots, , were
Slovene punctuation dash is still used when listing an alias after a full name, but only if this alias does not function as a surname. In these senses, a dash is a leaning punctuation mark. Similarly, a leaning dash is used in other instances where words are closely connected to one another and both parts are inflected. A dash also expresses the meaning of 'to' or 'up to' or 'until': A dash is used as the symbol for minus, although the separate minus sign is also used: Dashes may introduce lists. For example:<br> – prvi primer,<br> – drugi primer,<br> – tretji primer.