Bug#235759: libc6: iconv's replacement for "German quotes in UTF-8" to latin1
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>"
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