Re: Issue in man page charsets.7

Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> · Sun, 29 Jan 2023 19:35:39 +0100

Hi Stefan,

On 1/29/23 17:45, Stefan Puiu wrote:
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."

I'd rather remove the "West" adjective from Europe.  It's simpler.  Does it 
sound reasonable to you?

Cheers,

Alex

Regards,
Stefan.

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