* Denis Barbier <barbier@linuxfr.org> [2004-03-16 22:45]:
> I had a look at de.po files in KDE and GNOME. The former use English
> double quotes, the latter French guillemets, so Unicode quotes are
> indeed seldom used. I am going to send another mail to debian-glibc
> (with my revised patch) to explain that this problem is indeed new and
> has to be solved. But someone should try to convince upstream as well.
I will try to add the share of the gnome-de list upstream. Sorry that I
haven't done yet.
I was told that they/we have chosen »« as quote characters and that
they only like to use those. Because »« are already included in
iso-8859-1{,5} that was never a problem. Yes, the option of the utf8
quotes was there when that decision was taken.
> There was a comment on gnome-de (IIRC) telling that Unicode characters
> are hard to type under X, maybe you should address this issue too if
> this statement is still valid.
Keys are easy to remap so raising that might be a reason that would be
turned against you easily (»If that is your only problem....«).
So long,
Alfie
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