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Bug#309642: marked as done (snownews: html_entities file is not optimal for any sane charset)

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and subject line snownews has been removed from Debian, closing #309642
has caused the Debian Bug report #309642,
regarding snownews: html_entities file is not optimal for any sane charset
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--- Begin Message --- 
Package: snownews
Version: 1.5.6.1-2

The ~/.snownews/html_entities file is generated as ISO-8859-1, but
converts entities such as &laquo; and &raquo; to ASCII quotes despite
the presence of the proper guillemets in ISO-8859-1.  This is
inconsistent with the umlaut-char entities being converted to the
corresponding ISO-8859-1 characters.

Converting the file to UTF-8 and replacing &mdash; et al. with the
appropriate Unicode characters seems to work okay; it would be nice if
such a file could be included with the package if not made the default.

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--- Begin Message --- 
Version: 1.5.10-1+rm

The snownews package has been removed from Debian so we are closing
the bugs that were still opened against it.

For more information about this package's removal, read
http://bugs.debian.org/468778 . That bug might give the reasons why
this package was removed, and suggestions of possible replacements.

Don't hesitate to reply to this mail if you have any question.

Thank you for your contribution to Debian.

Kind regards,
--
Marco Rodrigues

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