RFC: Description text in packages

[Matthew Woehlke]

Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le lundi 15 décembre 2008 à 19:16 -0600, Matthew Woehlke a écrit :
>> Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>>> Le lundi 15 décembre 2008 à 08:41 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi a écrit :
>>>> Currently, I'm opposed to having a Guideline that mandates UTF-8 over
>>>> ASCII.
>>> And I'm opposed to continuing to abuse ASCII glyphs and pretend they
>>> stand for something other than their creators intended. One couldn't
>>> avoid it when the available encoding didn't provide a clean way to write
>>> some stuff, but doing it in 2008 is plain dumb.
>> I must have missed the 'fancy quotes' keys on my keyboard.
> 
> Complain to your xkb maintainer. Mine has «»“”‘’‚„

And those would be what buttons again?

" is a clearly-marked key on my keyboard. Those others are not. Until 
mainstream keyboards (including "mainstream in the U.S.") have actual 
keys for fancy quotes, I think asking/requiring people to use something 
other than " is arguably unreasonable.

Saying "xkb supports it" doesn't help if I have no idea how to make xkb 
generate those characters (plus, what do I do if I'm not using X?).

-- 
Matthew
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