Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> writes: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 12:26:28PM +0200, you wrote: >>A) Using the same quotes as in english, i.e., "" > > Once again, the english quotes are also stupid: >> mv -iv foo bar > `foo' -> `bar' > > It is not clear why german users are the only ones who need an "apology" > because they get stupid-looking quotes. The english quotes at least stick to the idea that one character is one symbol. I find the ,, ascii art-like behaviour for German very ugly, and in fact, for me as a braille user, it is even more confusing than it is probably for a sighted user. What I see there are two commas, I have no way of even guessing that this should look like a open quote. The situation will be even worse for people using speech. Naming a single character with a substitution is a common feature in screen readers, but I wouldn't know how to tell such a program that ",," is to be pronounced as "open quote". Even if it were possible in some cases, the posibility of false-positives is still there. All in all, if this can't be fixed in time, I second the idea of an apology in the release notes. -- CYa, Mario
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