Re: Bug#298521: groff-base: Please, groff support some special character (u201D, u201C)

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

Source: groff
Source-Version: 1.20.1-1

On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 04:12:24PM +0900, YABUKI Yukiharu wrote:
> Package: groff-base
> Version: 1.18.1.1-6
> Severity: minor
[...]
> I would like to see man page for 'nkf' which is kanji encode transfer
> filter.
> 
> I submit "man nkf" command. I can see man page. But I can see 
> some strange message.
> 
> nkf(1):/tmp/zmanb0mEyx:286: warning: can't find special character `u201D'
> /tmp/zmanb0mEyx:432: warning: can't find special character `u201C'
> 
> I check above message. I found some clue in Malling List in Japan.
> http://lists.debian.or.jp/debian-doc/200311/msg00013.html(Sorry, It is Japanse
> messaage)
> 
> I guess that some files in "/usr/share/groff/1.18.1/font/devnippon/"
> doese not have below characters.
> 
> "LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK","LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK",
> "RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK", "RIGHT SINGlE QUOTATION MARK"
> 
> please add (multi-byte) above characters

Thanks for your report, and sorry for my belated reply.

I've confirmed that groff 1.20.1-1 and newer renders the Japanese
translation of nkf(1) without these errors.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]