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If given the character ” in xorg.conf, X does not work correctly.

The character ” can be found all over the Internet, including in posts intended to give advice on how to edit xorg.conf to achieve various goals. 
 ” looks incredibly similar to ".

This is a serious usability concern. I mistakenly gave someone advice
taking information from the Internet that at first glance looked
identical to steps I had taken myself, and successfully achieved my
goal.

    Either the character ” needs to be changed to look less similar than ",
    X need to be able to handle the character ”,
    or some other step needs to be taken. 

    From the perspective of anyone but a programmer, a program is
expected to handle any input its given without crashing. A program is
expected to handle input its given gracefully, without crashing, or
refusing to start. And to a user ” is exactly the same, and
indistinguishable from ".


    I hold no illusions that this issue will ever be fixed, but please don't mark this bug as invalid. My laptop is incapable of utilizing dual monitors now that the proprietary drivers for my ATI card are no longer supported by ATI without editing xorg manually. One of the first things that I had to do when using ubuntu on this machine was edit the xorg.conf file to fix a graphics issue.
    It is far from unrealistic to expect users to put the character ” into an xorg.conf file. OpenOffice writer correctly displays the character, and I don't find it unrealistic that someone will eventually write a document in Word explaining how to do what-have-you in linux to someone. I doubt I'm the first to experience this unexpected behavior, and I doubt I'm the last.

    I this that a status of wishlist and confirmed is appropriate for
this bug. Regardless of if it will ever realistically be fixed, it is
still a bug.


-Mike

** Affects: xorg-server (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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xorg can't handle the character: ”
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