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Re: Bug#467108: u201C and u201D should be valid charater for zh_CN.UTF-8



tags 467108 wontfix
thanks

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.

Sorry, no, I don't think this will happen. Europeans don't get to use «
or » as quotation marks either. groff is a language with its own
metacharacters, even if sometimes it looks like ordinary running text,
and you need to use the proper documented ways to get quotation marks.

Regards,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]


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