From: Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com>
To: Per Bothner <per@bothner.com>
Cc: "Martin v. Loewis" <martin@v.loewis.de>, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: quote marks [was: Status of i18n patches]
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 10:03:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021014162949.GB3271@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3DAAED5C.9070109@bothner.com>
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 09:14:20AM -0700, Per Bothner wrote:
> While we're at it, perhaps it is time to fix things like:
> `%s' to '%s' - i.e. get rid of uses of 0x60 GRAVE ACCENT as
> "begin single quote". This no longer works with modern
> Unicode-compatible fonts, since it is not symmetric with
> 0x27 APROSTROPHE (aks APOSTROPHE-QUOTE).
While I agree that we need to make a change along these lines, I would
suggest using "%s" (0x22 QUOTATION MARK) which is reliably a neutral
(vertical) double quote. This is already the convention in cpplib.
It is, however, mildly annoying to have to write \" all the time.
> 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
> ...
An interesting idea... although, if we go with the double-quote
suggestion, it should be 0x201C/0x201D. Don't recent versions of
gettext have the ability to recode messages on output? Perhaps this
feature could be added there.
zw
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-14 16:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-13 16:57 Status of i18n patches Martin v. Loewis
2002-10-14 9:35 ` quote marks [was: Status of i18n patches] Per Bothner
2002-10-14 10:03 ` Zack Weinberg [this message]
2002-10-14 10:25 ` Paul Koning
2002-10-14 12:42 ` Joseph S. Myers
2002-10-14 12:55 ` Per Bothner
2002-10-14 15:31 ` Michael Matz
2002-10-14 17:13 ` Per Bothner
2002-10-15 3:57 ` Michael Matz
2002-10-15 3:46 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2002-10-14 12:44 ` Martin v. Loewis
2002-10-14 12:51 ` Zack Weinberg
2002-10-15 3:38 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
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