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Re: GCC 's quoting typographic conventions
- From: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>
- To: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at cs dot tamu dot edu>
- Cc: Paul Schlie <schlie at comcast dot net>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org,gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 20:57:08 -0800
- Subject: Re: GCC 's quoting typographic conventions
- References: <BDA97ACD.7B0B%schlie@comcast.net> <m3u0sbj0xe.fsf@merlin.cs.tamu.edu>
On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 05:28:29PM -0500, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> Paul Schlie <schlie@comcast.net> writes:
>
> | Re: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-10/msg01263.html
> | http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-10/msg02679.html
> |
> | I suspect the strongest argument in favor GCC simply utilizing plane old
> | ASCII typographical " and ' quote delimiter characters when possible, is
>
> If you want plain " or ', you know how to get it. That has been
> documented.
It could bite enough people that it should appear near the top of
the changes file for 4.0; software developers who speak languages
other than English might be quite likely to both have UTF8 specified,
and have tools that parse error messages.