---
title: alternateQuotationBeginDelimiter
framework: foundation
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: foundation/locale/alternatequotationbegindelimiter
---

# alternateQuotationBeginDelimiter

The alternate quotation begin delimiter of the locale.

## Declaration

```swift
var alternateQuotationBeginDelimiter: String? { get }
```

## Discussion

Discussion For example, returns ‘ for “en_US”, and 『 for “zh-Hant-HK”.

## See Also

### Getting information about a locale

- [identifier](foundation/locale/identifier.md)
- [identifier(_:)](foundation/locale/identifier(_:).md)
- [Locale.IdentifierType](foundation/locale/identifiertype.md)
- [calendar](foundation/locale/calendar.md)
- [regionCode](foundation/locale/regioncode.md)
- [languageCode](foundation/locale/languagecode-swift.property.md)
- [scriptCode](foundation/locale/scriptcode.md)
- [variantCode](foundation/locale/variantcode.md)
- [exemplarCharacterSet](foundation/locale/exemplarcharacterset.md)
- [collationIdentifier](foundation/locale/collationidentifier.md)
- [collatorIdentifier](foundation/locale/collatoridentifier.md)
- [usesMetricSystem](foundation/locale/usesmetricsystem.md)
- [decimalSeparator](foundation/locale/decimalseparator.md)
- [groupingSeparator](foundation/locale/groupingseparator.md)
- [currencyCode](foundation/locale/currencycode.md)