Bug#235759: libc6: iconv's replacement for "German quotes in UTF-8" to latin1
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> Your first argument is:
> > quote). This is quite confusing - take this as an example:
> > $ cp -v .bashrc /tmp/
> > ,,.bashrc" -> ,,/tmp/.bashrc"
>
> So I wrote in previous mail:
> > So, default ` ' pair will become problematic under LANG=C, don't
> > you?
> >
> > W3c example which uses ` ,, '.
> >
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/CR-CSS21-20040225/generate.html
>
> Your point is standing on /bin/cp issue (it seems being confusable
> when using only /bin/cp, and I said it's also confusable under LANG=C
> so I think you should use original ` ') and French << and German ,,
> is handled as same in Germany. But I think it seems it's not quite
> different character and it's not appropriate for transliteration
> conversion. Well I don't know German practice, so I would like to
> know more reasons. At least I presented w3c example - is this
> example inappropriate for German users?
I would say it is inappropriate. Sure, `,,' looks similar to U201E, but
similarity does not mean equivalence and therefore causes confusion as
reality showed. However, as Denis already stated:
There are two *equivalent* sets of quotes in German:
* U201E and U201C are normal German quotes (only available under
UTF-8)
* U00BB and U00AB are also common in German.
I don't see any reason why one should make up similar looking quotes for
German like `,,' (for U201E) or ` ' (the C default), if for the German
language an equivalence (namely U00BB and U00AB) exists.
I can understand your wish to know background information to why this
change is wished by the German translation team. I think, this
information has now been been given, especially by Denis' email. If
there are further reasons which let you hesitate, please state them.
Regards,
Jens
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