Well, to be honest with you, I think that it should handle this particular
situation by treating the quote character as a quote character. I fully
expected to be able to paste the chunk of text above into xorg.conf by
sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
clicking the last line
and pressing control V.
Like I mentioned, I couldn't tell the difference at first glance
between the special non-ascii quotes and the ones I get by pressing the
quote character.
Do I think thats a reasonable expectation? no.
For now, if X tells me the reason it crashed is because I gave it
non-ascii characters in its conf file, that would be a good pointer to
me for how to fix it. Telling me that xorg.conf is corrupted, while
accurate, doesn't help me narrow down the exact cause. (If i'm
remembering the exact error message it gives wrong let me know. I tried
it a few days ago and could easily be mis-remembering)
Or, if its not unreasonable to do this, is there a way that X can
look through the file and say to itself "hmm, this isn't an ascii
character, but it could represent a quote character in the specific
encoding its using. Does the conf file make sense if i treat it as a
quote?"
Is this a better job for a special program?
I think Matrin makes a good point that bringing X to the point where
editing Xorg.conf would solve many problems.
-Mike
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xorg doesn't recognize the non-ASCII variant of character ” in xorg.conf
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/373516
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