Re: Bug#235759: Comentar on which replacement for German quotes

2004-04-04 Thread Nathanael Nerode
GOTO Masanori wrote: At Mon, 29 Mar 2004 04:23:37 -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: as a German native speaker with some interest on typography but virtually no knowledge on UTF-8 some comments: The common quotes in German today are double open quotes (low position) U201E together

Re: Bug#235759: Comentar on which replacement for German quotes

2004-04-02 Thread GOTO Masanori
At Mon, 29 Mar 2004 04:23:37 -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: as a German native speaker with some interest on typography but virtually no knowledge on UTF-8 some comments: The common quotes in German today are double open quotes (low position) U201E together with double closed

RE: Bug#235759: Comentar on which replacement for German quotes

2004-04-02 Thread Julian Mehnle
GOTO Masanori wrote: At Mon, 29 Mar 2004 04:23:37 -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: as a German native speaker with some interest on typography but virtually no knowledge on UTF-8 some comments: The common quotes in German today are double open quotes (low position) U201E

Re: Bug#235759: Comentar on which replacement for German quotes

2004-04-02 Thread Nathanael Nerode
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 GOTO Masanori wrote: | At Mon, 29 Mar 2004 04:23:37 -0500, | Nathanael Nerode wrote: | |as a German native speaker with some interest on typography but |virtually no knowledge on UTF-8 some comments: | |The common quotes in German today are | double

Re: Bug#235759: Comentar on which replacement for German quotes

2004-04-02 Thread Denis Barbier
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 11:36:25PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: At Mon, 29 Mar 2004 04:23:37 -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: as a German native speaker with some interest on typography but virtually no knowledge on UTF-8 some comments: The common quotes in German today are double

Bug#235759: Comentar on which replacement for German quotes

2004-04-01 Thread Denis Barbier
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 01:00:20AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 11:02:11PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 02:47:42AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: [...] I am a bit surprised that this discussion and all patches sent only cover de_DE, although there

Bug#235759: Comentar on which replacement for German quotes

2004-03-30 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 11:02:11PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 02:47:42AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: [...] I am a bit surprised that this discussion and all patches sent only cover de_DE, although there are altogether three common de_ locales plus two others the

Re: Bug#235759: Comentar on which replacement for German quotes

2004-03-29 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Adrian Bunk wrote: Hi, as a German native speaker with some interest on typography but virtually no knowledge on UTF-8 some comments: The common quotes in German today are double open quotes (low position) U201E together with double closed quote (high position) U201C The current

Bug#235759: Comentar on which replacement for German quotes

2004-03-29 Thread Denis Barbier
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 02:47:42AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: [...] I am a bit surprised that this discussion and all patches sent only cover de_DE, although there are altogether three common de_ locales plus two others the locales package supports. If you fix this issue, it should be properly

Bug#235759: Comentar on which replacement for German quotes

2004-03-28 Thread Adrian Bunk
Hi, as a German native speaker with some interest on typography but virtually no knowledge on UTF-8 some comments: The common quotes in German today are double open quotes (low position) U201E together with double closed quote (high position) U201C The current conversion ,,text looks