Re: Bug#235759: Transliteration
Am Di, den 16.03.2004 schrieb Denis Barbier um 00:03:
> $ echo "0: e2 80 9e e2 80 9c 0a" | xxd -r |\
> iconv --from=UTF-8 --to=ascii//translit
> ""
>
> I am not sure whether these quotes are fine in German, there may
> be better ASCII alternatives, so a German speaking people should
> propose this patch to #235759 instead of the one already submitted.
They are OK, as there is nothing better in ASCII.
> Out of curiosity, could someone answer to these questions I asked
> on #235759?
> Why was this issue not raised before?
Difficult to answer; why has something _not_ happened? I guess that only
recently translators took advantage of Unicode quotes, so it just wasn't
noticed before.
Bye,
Mike
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