From: Per Bothner <per@bothner.com>
To: "Martin v. Loewis" <martin@v.loewis.de>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: quote marks [was: Status of i18n patches]
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 09:35:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DAAED5C.9070109@bothner.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200210131822.g9DIMIm7001524@mira.informatik.hu-berlin.de>
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).
Unicode recommends using 0x2018 LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
and 0x2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK, but that may be too
radical a choice, for now.
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 ...
--
--Per Bothner
per@bothner.com http://www.bothner.com/per/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-14 16:14 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 ` Per Bothner [this message]
2002-10-14 10:03 ` quote marks [was: Status of i18n patches] Zack Weinberg
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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