Re: Bug#467108: u201C and u201D should be valid charater for zh_CN.UTF-8
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 12:34:29PM +0800, LI Daobing wrote:
>
> man report a warning when there is "“" or "”" in the manpage[1].
> (bash.zh_CN.1 in attachment)
>
> I think these two character should be accepted. because it's widely used in
> simplified chinese and it's in the GB 2312 charset[2][3] and almost all
> chinese fonts provide this.
As Colin (the man-db maintainer) said in the mail [4] to
debian-devel-announce list, the usage of characters in a manpage is
still limited by groff. And according to groff_char(7), the curly
double quotes should be written as \[lq] for U+201C and \[rq] for
U+201D.
So I think man-db is giving a valid warning. It can be argued that the
curly quotes should be accepted, but that should be a groff bug instead
of a man-db one.
> [1]
> $ export LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8; man -l bash.zh_CN.1 > /dev/null
> <standard input>:48: warning: can't find special character `u201C'
> <standard input>:48: warning: can't find special character `u201D'
4. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/02/msg00005.html
Ming
2008.02.23
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