Re: Bug#235759: Comentar on which replacement for German quotes

[GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>]

At Mon, 29 Mar 2004 04:23:37 -0500,
Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> > 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.
> I would make an effort to avoid any conversion which is asymmetrical in
> length, for any language, actually.  I hate when info documents say ``foo",
> for instance...

So are ,,text'' and ``foo'' reasonable?

Regards,
-- gotom