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["A. Eibach" <1359990@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Agree. They should definitely not be _mixed_.

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Title:
  Strange quotation in german messages. i.e. 'cp -v .bashrc /tmp/'
  outputs: ».bashrc“ -> »/tmp/.bashrc“

Status in “coreutils” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  This is about a strange quotation in some german messages, see:

  $ cp -v .bashrc /tmp/
  ».bashrc“ -> »/tmp/.bashrc“

  $ cp /tmp/does_not_exist .
  cp: der Aufruf von stat für »/tmp/does_not_exist“ ist nicht möglich: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden

  I'm talking about the » and “ characters. They should be „ and “, as
  can be found in the usage message of cp:

  $ cp
  cp: Fehlender Dateioperand
  „cp --help“ liefert weitere Informationen.

  The english messages all use ' for the quotation marks, which is ok:

  $ LANG=C cp -v .bashrc /tmp/
  '.bashrc' -> '/tmp/.bashrc'

  I'd like to sum up the german wikipedia on quotation marks
  (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anführungszeichen):

  * When using a typewriter, both "..." or '...' can be used.
  * In germany and austria, both „...“ and »...« can be used. I'd prefer „...“, as the latter is not widely used in germany.
  * In switzerland, liechtenstein and france, «…» is used.

  Note that " (typewriter version) and “ (to be used together with „)
  are different characters.

  Sure, there are many possibilities, but the current messages are
  wrong!

  I'd prefer '...' at least for the output of 'cp -v ...', as this might be parsed in some shell scripts. For consistency,
  I would vote for using '...' everywhere.

  Alternatively, using „...“ everywhere would also be a good choice.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: coreutils 8.21-1ubuntu5
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-34.60-generic 3.13.11.4
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-34-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.3
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: KDE
  Date: Thu Aug 21 23:20:41 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-08-12 (739 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120423)
  SourcePackage: coreutils
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-21 (122 days ago)

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