Bug#355728 acknowledged by developer ([Fwd: Re: [l2h] Debian Bug#355728: latex2html: please use typographic quotation marks])

[Wolfram Quester]

Hi,

I'm the one who reported the bug cited below to debian's BTS

> Cc: LaTeX2HTML List <latex2html at tug.org>
> From: Ross Moore <ross at ics.mq.edu.au>
> Subject: Re: [l2h] Debian Bug#355728: latex2html: please use typographic quotation marks
> Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 12:05:09 +1000
> To: Roland Stigge <stigge at antcom.de>
> 
> 
> On 16/04/2006, at 11:55 PM, Roland Stigge wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >greetings from Debian! Someone reported to us:
> >
> >>latex creates typographic quotation marks (“”) from the ``'' input. It
> >>would be nice if latex2html would do the same if CHARSET=UTF-8 is 
> >>set. I
> >>think that even using "" would be better than ``'' in the html code. 
> >>It
> >>should also create a header saying that the html file is utf-8 
> >>encoded.
> >
> >What would be the right way to go here?
> 
> $USE_CURLY_QUOTES = 1;
> 
> set this in an initialization file.
> 
> 
> Also set the following
> 
>                       $USE_UTF=1;
> 
> OR execute the job with options such as:
> 
> latex2html -split 0 -html_version 4.0,latin1,unicode,utf8  myfile.tex
> 
> 4.0 =  satisfy HTML 4.0  recommendations   (4.1  might work for  HTML 
> 4.01)
> latin1 =  input encoding
> unicode = use unicode code-points in the output
> utf8 =  use byte-sequences, rather than entity numbers (or names)
>             whenever appropriate.
> 
> 
> The HTML headers should now include:
> 
> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=utf-8">
> 
> 
> >
> >Thanks,
> 
> You're welcome.
> No bugs here.

Thanks for your response and I agree that there is no bug as I reported.
Nonetheless, there stays a wishlist bug: 
"If the HTML-version is >= 4.0 create "&ldquo;&rdquo;" from "``''" in the
input. I think this would be even cleaner than changing to utf8 output.

Thanks,

Wolfi
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