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24.0.50; the NS variant shows the U+20xy quotes always in ugly Apple Symbols font

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From: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
To: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa <at> freenet.de>
Cc: 9515 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 9519 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9519: 24.0.50; the NS variant shows the U+20xy quotes always in ugly Apple Symbols font
Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 20:00:16 +0100

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa <at> freenet.de> writes:

> These typographical quotes
>
> 	‘;  2018  LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
> 	’;  2019  RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
> 	‚;  201A  SINGLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK
> 	‛;  201B  SINGLE HIGH-REVERSED-9 QUOTATION MARK
> 	“;  201C  LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK
> 	”;  201D  RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK
> 	„;  201E  DOUBLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK
> 	‟;  201F  DOUBLE HIGH-REVERSED-9 QUOTATION MARK
>
> are always displayed in ugly Apple Symbols font, which puts the low quotes much too high and the high quotes much too low.

I believe the default for these characters is now Menlo, which looks OK
to me.

I'm going to close this bug report, but if you disagree, you can re-open
the bug report and let us know.
-- 
Alan Third

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