From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16134 invoked by alias); 14 Oct 2002 21:44:35 -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 16123 invoked from network); 14 Oct 2002 21:44:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail-out1.apple.com) (17.254.0.52) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 14 Oct 2002 21:44:34 -0000 Received: from mailgate2.apple.com (A17-129-100-225.apple.com [17.129.100.225]) by mail-out1.apple.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g9ELiXi22540 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 14:44:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scv2.apple.com (scv2.apple.com) by mailgate2.apple.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.1) with ESMTP id ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 14:44:33 -0700 Received: from bothner.com (il0102b-dhcp197.apple.com [17.201.26.247]) by scv2.apple.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g9ELiXc03757; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 14:44:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3DAB3ABD.1050505@bothner.com> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 17:13:00 -0000 From: Per Bothner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020814 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Matz CC: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: quote marks [was: Status of i18n patches] References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-10/txt/msg00759.txt.bz2 Michael Matz wrote: > But my GUI (xterm) can't do that easily, so to fix the inappropriate use > of ` would be worthy nevertheless. My suggestion is that by default (without some appropriate option or environment variable) that gcc's message routines (error etc) would translate the '\`' to '\''. However, if we change the actual error messages to use '\'', then it becomes much more difficult support the *option* to convert then to some other format. -- --Per Bothner per@bothner.com http://www.bothner.com/per/