URL:
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Summary: gpinyin: renders apostrophe wrongly
Project: GNU troff
Submitted by: gbranden
Submitted on: Sun 09 May 2021 07:02:28 AM UTC
Category: Preprocessor - others
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Incorrect behaviour
Status: In Progress
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Planned Release: None
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Details:
When gpinyin interpolates an apostrophe before one of the vowels [aeo], it
uses the \[aq] special character, which is of neutral shape. However, this
appears to be incorrect, as it is for apostrophes in typeset English.
For example, a majority the many font examples at
<http://pinyin.info/news/category/misc/pinyin-font-misc/> use discernibly
non-neutral glyphs for this purpose.
Our nroff device (grotty) can and does degrade this special character to an
ASCII apostrophe if necessary. (It's something of an academic point, as only
-Tutf8 has a sufficient character repertoire to handle gpinyin output in
general.)
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