Bug#235759: libc6: iconv's replacement for "German quotes in UTF-8" to latin1
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> I don't understand why they want to use this convertion instead
> of ,, and ". Please describe the reason for BTS or bugzilla. In
> addition I can't read German.
There was a bug report about this matter
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=228486
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=228486&msg=13
Hence the discussion on the German translators' list. The thing is
simply that ,, (2 commas) are not the same as one „ (the beginning
quote). This is quite confusing - take this as an example:
$ cp -v .bashrc /tmp/
,,.bashrc" -> ,,/tmp/.bashrc"
However, there is actually no need for this unappropriate
replacement pattern, since »this way to quote« is regarded
equivalent to „this way to quote“ in German. So when the above
mentioned bug report came up, the discussion on the German
translators' email list went like: "All translators should only use
» and «. This should be accepted as a generell convention and all
translators should stick to it etc." However, others said: "I want
to use „ and “. These quotes are nicer and more often used (which
is true), get your PC ready for UTF-8". Later we found out that
this problem could be easily fixed by changing the replacement
pattern.
HTH. Feel free to comment on it or to ask about it.
Jens
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