Hi, I'm the one who reported the bug cited below to debian's BTS
> Cc: LaTeX2HTML List <latex2html@tug.org> > From: Ross Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [l2h] Debian Bug#355728: latex2html: please use typographic > quotation marks > Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 12:05:09 +1000 > To: Roland Stigge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On 16/04/2006, at 11:55 PM, Roland Stigge wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >greetings from Debian! Someone reported to us: > > > >>latex creates typographic quotation marks (“”) from the ``'' input. It > >>would be nice if latex2html would do the same if CHARSET=UTF-8 is > >>set. I > >>think that even using "" would be better than ``'' in the html code. > >>It > >>should also create a header saying that the html file is utf-8 > >>encoded. > > > >What would be the right way to go here? > > $USE_CURLY_QUOTES = 1; > > set this in an initialization file. > > > Also set the following > > $USE_UTF=1; > > OR execute the job with options such as: > > latex2html -split 0 -html_version 4.0,latin1,unicode,utf8 myfile.tex > > 4.0 = satisfy HTML 4.0 recommendations (4.1 might work for HTML > 4.01) > latin1 = input encoding > unicode = use unicode code-points in the output > utf8 = use byte-sequences, rather than entity numbers (or names) > whenever appropriate. > > > The HTML headers should now include: > > <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=utf-8"> > > > > > >Thanks, > > You're welcome. > No bugs here. Thanks for your response and I agree that there is no bug as I reported. Nonetheless, there stays a wishlist bug: "If the HTML-version is >= 4.0 create "“”" from "``''" in the input. I think this would be even cleaner than changing to utf8 output. Thanks, Wolfi
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