Re: Bug#235759: Comentar on which replacement for German quotes
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GOTO Masanori wrote:
| 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?
In my opinion? No.
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