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Re: quote marks [was: Status of i18n patches]

From: Paul Koning <pkoning at equallogic dot com>
To: zack at codesourcery dot com
Cc: per at bothner dot com, martin at v dot loewis dot de, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 13:03:21 -0400
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>

>>>>> "Zack" == 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
 >> ...

 Zack> An interesting idea... although, if we go with the double-quote
 Zack> suggestion, it should be 0x201C/0x201D. 

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.

       paul

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  - From: Martin v. Loewis
- quote marks [was: Status of i18n patches]
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