Bug#235759: Comentar on which replacement for German quotes

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

Hi,

as a German native speaker with some interest on typography but 
virtually no knowledge on UTF-8 some comments:

The common quotes in German today are
  double open quotes (low position) U201E
together with
  double closed quote (high position) U201C

The current conversion
  ,,text"
looks strange because the opening quotes don't match the closing 
quotes.

French quotes are relatively uncommon in today's German.
If you use them, you also have to be aware that in Swiss German the 
French closed quotes are used as opening quotes and vice versa.

Intuitively, I'd have used the English quotes if German quotes are not
available.

I am a bit surprised that this discussion and all patches sent only
cover de_DE, although there are altogether three common de_ locales
plus two others the locales package supports.
If you fix this issue, it should be properly fixed for all de_ locales.

cu
Adrian

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