reassign 235759 locales tags 235759 + patch thanks On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:43:00AM +0100, Jens Nachtigall wrote: > Package: libc6
Reassigned to the locales package. > Version: 2.3.2.ds1-11 > Severity: minor > Tags: l10n > > There are two different sets of quotes in German: > - the so-called German quotes (quite similar to English quotes), > which are part of UTF-8: "???" and "???" > - and the so called French quotes (guillemets), which are also part > of ISO 8859-1: "�" and "�" [...] > It would be better to replace the German quotes with the French ones, > that is "???" should be replaced by "�" and "???" by "�" in an > environment which is unable of using UTF-8. > $> echo "0: e2 80 9e e2 80 9c 0a" | xxd -r | iconv --from=UTF-8 \ > --to=latin1//translit > �� Here is a patch, but IMHO you should report this problem upstream. Unless it is fixed in their CVS (or at least agreed upon), I am afraid that glibc Debian maintainers will be reluctant to make this change. Denis
--- de_DE.orig 2004-03-02 12:21:51.000000000 +0100 +++ de_DE 2004-03-02 12:21:12.000000000 +0100 @@ -51,6 +51,12 @@ % LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS. <U00FC> "<U0075><U0308>";"<U0075><U0065>" +% German quotation marks +% DOUBLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK +<U201E> <U00BB> +% LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK +<U201C> <U00AB> + % Danish. % LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE. <U00C5> "<U0041><U030A>";"<U0041><U0041>"
