Re: [bug-gnulib] Re: quoting in gnulib

[Paul Eggert]

address@hidden (Bob Proulx) writes that
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Quotation_marks_in_English>:

> looks fine to me too on my stock Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 sarge system
> running Firefox 1.0.4.  (I am saying this only so that readers of the
> archive later won't think this is intrinsically a problem with Debian
> sarge.)

Yes, I suspect it depends on your install options.  However, I use a
pretty vanilla install: desktop American English environment, and I
don't futz with the font paths as far as I know.  So I would expect
that others will run into the problem as well.

I just checked with a different Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 sarge system
running the Debian-supplied Firefox 1.0.4, and it also fails for me.

The problem is with this bit of HTML source:

<dd><b>‛</b> – U+201B (HTML: &amp;#8219;) – <b>single high-reversed-9</b>, or 
<b>single reversed comma</b>, <b>quotation mark</b></dd>
<dd><b>‟</b> – U+201F (HTML: &amp;#8223;) – <b>double high-reversed-9</b>, or 
<b>double reversed comma</b>, <b>quotation mark</b></dd>

The ‛ (the three bytes e2 80 9b, which is UTF-8 for U+201B) and ‟ (e2
80 9f, which is UTF-8 for U+201F) are not rendered correctly on my
browser.

Anyway, it's probably not worth worrying about this: I wouldn't
recommend those quote characters for American English users anyway,
even if we didn't have this compatiblity glitch.