From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Oct 18 05:50:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA16436 for ports-outgoing; Sat, 18 Oct 1997 05:50:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports) Received: from innocence.interface-business.de (innocence.interface-business.de [193.101.57.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA16427 for ; Sat, 18 Oct 1997 05:50:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by innocence.interface-business.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) with UUCP id OAA21823 for freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 18 Oct 1997 14:50:49 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id OAA16494; Sat, 18 Oct 1997 14:48:31 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19971018144829.NT33941@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sat, 18 Oct 1997 14:48:29 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Ports) Subject: Re: Odd behavior of " (quote) key in StarOffice port References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Jonathan Fosburgh on Oct 16, 1997 09:21:32 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jonathan Fosburgh wrote: > I would imagine the reason is because this is a German software package > that has been ported to English. That is a standard German method for > printing quotes. I thought these are called »French quotes«, aren't they? The standard German quotation is ,,like this one'' (normally with ligatures for ,, and '', but they are absent in ISO 8859-1). But you're probably right that it's just another way of quotation and full intention. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)