Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 08:28:14PM +0200, Mario Lang wrote: > >It feels to me as if you are intentionally failing to get my point. > > Likewise. :) > >I have no problems reading ``this'' as double quotes, but ,,this" is just > >a double comma. > > Well, `` isn't a double quote any more than ,, is--it's a pair of grave > accents. There is a proper double opening quote for english in UTF-8, > just like there's a proper double opening quote for german in UTF-8. The > only difference is that (until my previous post) english-speaking users > haven't demanded an apology for misusing punctuation.
This can be entirely sidestepped, because Debian *does* support German properly, if you use the correct locale. We should tell people: 1) Use such-and-such a locale if you want good German support, and 2) The thus-and-so locale has freaky quotation marks because we want to preserve consistency with other Linux distributions. No apology is necessary, because of (1). Thomas
