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,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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