Re: German style quotes and pdf-output

[BP Jonsson <bpj-J3H7GcXPSITLoDKTGw+V6w@public.gmane.org>]

2014-01-16 21:08, Beda Szukics skrev:
> Hi all
>
>
> I would like to use quotes in the german style. When I tranlate the
> following sentence with the smart-option I get the curly quotes in the
> english/american style:
>
> Bob said: "Hallo."
>
> So I tried avoid the translation process by using the correct quotes
> (copied from the article about quotation marks in the german Wikipedia):
>
> Hans sagte: „Hoi zäme.“
>
> Translating that into a pdf-file workes. But if I have a question or
> exclamation mark I get a funny output:
>
> Hans fragt: „Gahd es no?“ turns into:  „Gahd es no¿‘
>
> Hans ruft: „Hau ab!“ turns into:  „Hau ab¡‘
>
> Translating the sentences in epub or html or docx gives the correct result.
> I gess it's the LaTeX step witch causes trouble because the closing quote
> mark results in:
>
> „Gahd es no?`` and „Hau ab!``
>
> Why are the two quotation marks treated differently by pandoc? Is there a
> way to avoid that? (Writing \“ doesn't help)
>
> Greetings            Beda
>

You need to use the --no-tex-ligatures options if you have
Unicode  quotes etc. in your file.  Also, are you sure your
file is UTF-8-encoded?

/bpj

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