Dobbeltbindingkarakter

Dobbeltbindingkarakter is a Danish term used to describe the character or pair of characters that marks the boundaries of a quoted or delimited text unit. In practice, the concept covers the opening and closing symbols that bind text into a quote, a string literal in programming, or any paired delimiter used to enclose content.

In typography, the typical dobbeltbindingkarakter is the double quotation mark pair. Many languages use typographic quotes such as opening and closing double quotes, for example “ and ”, to enclose speech or titles. In digital text, the straight quotation mark " (U+0022) can also serve as a binding character when typographic forms are not available. Other languages and styles may employ angle quotes (for example, « and ») or other paired marks, but the general idea remains that a first character opens the quote and a corresponding closing character binds it.

In programming and data formats, the dobbeltbindingkarakter commonly appears as the delimiter that starts and ends a string literal. Most languages use the double quote character " to enclose strings, though some languages permit alternative delimiters or require escaping of inner quotes. The concept is also relevant in parsing and text processing, where correct pairing of opening and closing characters is necessary to maintain syntactic and semantic integrity.

Limitations and variants: the exact characters used as dobbeltbindingkarakter vary by language, typographic tradition, and context. The term itself is not a formal standard but a descriptive Danish label for the characters that jointly bind text into quoted or delimited units. See also quotation mark, string delimiter, and paired punctuation.