From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14952 invoked by alias); 14 Oct 2002 17:03:25 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 14940 invoked from network); 14 Oct 2002 17:03:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cygnus.equallogic.com) (65.170.102.10) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 14 Oct 2002 17:03:23 -0000 Received: from cygnus.equallogic.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by cygnus.equallogic.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g9EH3MN11358 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 13:03:22 -0400 Received: from deneb.dev.equallogic.com (deneb.dev.equallogic.com [172.16.1.99]) by cygnus.equallogic.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g9EH3Mk11343; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 13:03:22 -0400 Received: from pkoning.dev.equallogic.com.equallogic.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by deneb.dev.equallogic.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g9EH3Lv15176; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 13:03:21 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15786.63705.412430.807031@pkoning.dev.equallogic.com> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 10:25:00 -0000 From: Paul Koning To: zack@codesourcery.com Cc: per@bothner.com, martin@v.loewis.de, gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: quote marks [was: Status of i18n patches] References: <200210131822.g9DIMIm7001524@mira.informatik.hu-berlin.de> <3DAAED5C.9070109@bothner.com> <20021014162949.GB3271@codesourcery.com> X-SW-Source: 2002-10/txt/msg00715.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Zack" == Zack Weinberg writes: >> One option: we could have the various error routines post-process >> the error message before printing. Depending on an option or the >> locale it could either emit a pair of 0x27 or a 0x2018/0x2019 pair >> ... Zack> An interesting idea... although, if we go with the double-quote Zack> suggestion, it should be 0x201C/0x201D. Quotes are language-dependent. 201c/201d may be right for English, but not for Dutch (which uses ,, for open quote) nor French (which quotes with << and >>), to mention just a few examples. paul