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Re: quote marks [was: Status of i18n patches]
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 08:27:34PM +0200, Martin v. Loewis wrote:
> Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com> 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
> > > ...
> >
> > 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?
>
> glibc will do transliteration, translating 201C/201D with
> 0022. 2018/2019 transliterate to 0027. Dunno if standalone
> gettext/iconv can also transliterate.
I'm pretty sure glibc gettext/iconv are kept in sync with standalone.
They are, however, newer than what's in the gcc CVS. Updating them is
on my list for 3.4, but has to be coordinated with binutils/gdb.
zw