On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 04:04:31AM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: > At Fri, 02 Jul 2004 16:10:54 +0200, > Michael Piefel wrote: > > Am Fr, den 02.07.2004 schrieb Helge Kreutzmann um 9:24: > > > As far as I see, there are three possible options: > > > a) Use english quotes > > > b) Use ,, and " (pseudo german quotes) > > > c) Use french quotes as in » and « > > > d) Use U201E and U201C > > > [...] > > > c) if no UNICODE is available, else d) > > > > There is a non-automatic solution for this which I have just committed > > to the APT CVS. It is simply as follows: > > 1. Add de.UTF-8 to LINGUAS. > > 2. maintain both de.po and de.UTF-8.po. They differ only in the quotes. > > You may know that this is not related problem with this bug. Glibc > uses U201E and U201C, and transliteration rule automatically fall back > to ,, and ". > > > Since the change to libc seems unlikely (and most definitely not in time > > for sarge unless it takes as long as I fear), this is my preferred way. > > No, gettext automatically switches its output character coding system. > > I think there're some different opinions for this bug.
I strongly disagree, could you please give pointers so that we understand why you are reluctant to apply these patches? > This means this bug is proposal, not common rule. So at least I have > no idea to apply Denis' patch for a while. Denis
