Re: Issue in man page charsets.7

[Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>]

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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@helgefjell.de> 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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