xorg.conf is ASCII today afaik so it could be converted to UTF-8 in a backwards compatible fashion. Once that's done you could implement a small check that detects this and prints a nice error or even accepts the non-"ASCII 34" double quotes.
I think a lot of people feel that fixing the quotes would be like "treating the symptoms" instead of "finding the cure". The real fix is to make sure that no xorg.conf editing should be necessary for any mainstream use case at all. Lots of people are working very hard at getting to that point and just in X server release 1.6.0 we made enormous progress. ** Summary changed: - xorg can't handle the character: ” + xorg doesn't recognize the non-ASCII variant of character ” in xorg.conf -- xorg doesn't recognize the non-ASCII variant of character ” in xorg.conf https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/373516 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg-server in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
