Bug#854930: xelatex does not interpret TeX ligatures by default

To: Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya <jyotirmoy@jyotirmoy.net>, 854930@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#854930: xelatex does not interpret TeX ligatures by default
From: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2017 19:56:19 +0900
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severity 854930 serious
thanks

> By default XeLaTeX does not recognize the `` and '' ligatures for double
> quotes.

Indeed, LaTeX 2017/01/01 patchlevel 1 is necessary to fix this, there
was a stupid programming error.

I will prepare packages and try to get them into testing, as this is
a incompatible break.

Norbert

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