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Subject: Re: bug of feature: " with \de, \en
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 17:33:41 +0200
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At 04:58 PM 6/20/01 +0200, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
>Hi,
>
>once again a strage behaviour:
>
>\starttext
>\en
>"u
>\de
>"u
>\en
>"u
>\stoptext
>
>gives me
>
>"u ü ü
>(quotationmarks u uumlaut uumlaut)
>
>shouldn't this be 
>
>"u ü "u??

this is a shortcoming of the active character method used non-grouped, \de
invokes language specifics and these make " active so after \en this si
still the ace. You can overload that in \en specifics. 

In general, if you want to see "s, say \de \quotation{an "umlaut} 

Hans 
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