Re: Issue in man page charsets.7

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Hi Helge,

On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 9:39 PM Helge Kreutzmann <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Without further ado, the following was found:
>
> Issue:    „“ are not old-style, they are the current quotation marks required by German othography

Those are also used in Romanian, and probably other languages as well.

>
> "Latin-1 covers many West European languages such as Albanian, Basque, "
> "Danish, English, Faroese, Galician, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, "
> "Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.  The lack of the ligatures Dutch IJ/ij, "
> "French œ, and old-style „German“ quotation marks was considered tolerable."

A bit weird to include Albanian in West European languages, isn't it?
Maybe the text could be reworked to:

  "many West European languages such as Basque, Danish, [... other
languages ...] and also Albanian."

Regards,
Stefan.




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