From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1335 invoked by alias); 15 Oct 2002 08:34:36 -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 1326 invoked from network); 15 Oct 2002 08:34:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO soliton.integrable-solutions.net) (193.51.208.222) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 15 Oct 2002 08:34:35 -0000 Received: (from gdr@localhost) by soliton.integrable-solutions.net (8.11.6/8.11.6/SuSE Linux 0.5) id g9F8Xxe02424; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 10:33:59 +0200 To: Per Bothner Cc: Paul Koning , 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> <15786.63705.412430.807031@pkoning.dev.equallogic.com> <3DAB1AEA.1060906@bothner.com> From: Gabriel Dos Reis In-Reply-To: Per Bothner's message of "Mon, 14 Oct 2002 12:28:42 -0700" Organization: Integrable Solutions Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 03:46:00 -0000 Message-ID: X-SW-Source: 2002-10/txt/msg00794.txt.bz2 Per Bothner writes: | Paul Koning wrote: | > 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. | | -which may be an argument for single-quotes, rather than double-quotes. just nit-picking: ' is apostrophe in French used for elision as in "l'Atlantique". But in general I agree with: we should change `%s' to '%s' -- I think I was already doing similar thing in new diagnostics. -- Gaby