bugGNU roff - Bugs: bug #60561, gpinyin: renders apostrophe wrongly

 
 

bug #60561: gpinyin: renders apostrophe wrongly

Submitter:  G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
Submitted:  Sun 09 May 2021 07:02:28 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  Preprocessor - others/general Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  Incorrect behaviour Status:  Fixed
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  gbranden
Open/Closed:  Closed Planned Release:  1.23.0
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commit 599c6195695a0837b63411253ef5ae99a67923da
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun May 9 17:07:11 2021 +1000

    [gpinyin]: Fix Savannah #60561.

    * contrib/gpinyin/subs.pl (handle_word): Emit \[cq] instead of \[aq]
      when interpolating an apostrophe before a vowel.

    Fixes <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60561>.


G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
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Sun 09 May 2021 07:02:28 AM UTC, original submission:  

When gpinyin interpolates an apostrophe before one of the vowels [aeo], it uses the \[aq] special character, which is of neutral shape.  However, this appears to be incorrect, as it is for apostrophes in typeset English.

For example, a majority the many font examples at <http://pinyin.info/news/category/misc/pinyin-font-misc/> use discernibly non-neutral glyphs for this purpose.

Our nroff device (grotty) can and does degrade this special character to an ASCII apostrophe if necessary.  (It's something of an academic point, as only -Tutf8 has a sufficient character repertoire to handle gpinyin output in general.)

G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
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