On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 10:31:08AM +0200, Jens Seidel wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 12:13:37PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 06:16:20PM +0200, Jarek Kamiński <[EMAIL 
> > PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
> > > On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 02:13:55PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 05:47:47PM +0200, Jarek Kamiński <[EMAIL 
> > > > PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
> > > >   Anyway, the attached file should work.
> > > 
> > > Could you upload my version? It has strings with Polish quotes
> > > (,,blah''). Gzipped to not mess with text encoding.
> > 
> >   Hm, so Polish uses different leading quotes?  Only the upper
> 
> Every language uses different quotes! You cannot consider ''...'' to be
> proper quotes, right? Look into books (even English ones), you will not
> find ''...'' there. Common quotes are e.g. »...« or «...» but UTF-8
> contains also quotes which look like ,,...'' (same for ''..'').
> 
> The ASCII stuff looks ugly and no typographic rule would suggest these.

'' will be converted into ". Still not the optimal typographic solution
but less worse.

> > double-quotes need special escaping because they have a special meaning
> 
> " was escaped to \" in the Polish file. If this is not right, please
> document how to escape it.

Ah, I found your comments recently added to aptitude-defaults*. Thanks!

Jens



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