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Bug#308196: xlibs: Wrong quote characters input with AltGr-Shift-{V,B}

Package: xlibs
Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12
Severity: minor
Tags: patch

For PC latin keyboards (including gb which I'm using) the following
characters can be inputted using AltGr:

  AltGr-V          “  (U+201C - Left double quotation mark)
  AltGr-B          ”  (U+201D - Right double quotation mark)
  AltGr-Shift-V    `  (U+0060 - Grave accent)
  AltGr-Shift-B    '  (U+0027 - Apostrophe)

However the use of the last two as quote charaters is deprecated - see
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html for details.  So the
last two key combinations should be changed to produce the following
instead:

  AltGr-Shift-V    ‘  (U+2018 - Left single quotation mark)
  AltGr-Shift-B    ’  (U+2019 - Right single quotation mark)

I've included a patch for /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/latin that does
this.

Cheers,
Mark.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages xlibs depends on:
ii  libice6              4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libsm6               4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System Session Management
ii  libx11-6             4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxext6             4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxft1              4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxi6               4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System Input extension li
ii  libxmu6              4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii  libxmuu1             4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 lightweight X Window System miscel
ii  libxp6               4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System printing extension
ii  libxpm4              4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X pixmap library
ii  libxrandr2           4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System Resize, Rotate and
ii  libxt6               4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii  libxtrap6            4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System protocol-trapping
ii  libxtst6             4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System event recording an
ii  xlibs-data           4.3.0.dfsg.1-12     X Window System client data

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Attachment: xkb.patch
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