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Re: code that could be improved
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm at polyomino dot org dot uk>
- To: Roland Illig <roland dot illig at gmx dot de>
- Cc: bug-gcc at gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 09:00:04 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Re: code that could be improved
- References: <4043CD7D.6020006@gmx.de>
On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Roland Illig wrote:
> I'm currently translating gcc-3.4-b20040206 into German. Here is a list
> of things I don't like in the current code:
Please report each issue as a separate bug to our bug database so that
they can be tracked. <http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html>, as referenced in the
Report-Msgid-Bugs-To line of gcc.pot, makes clear this is preferred.
> - various quoting techniques: `foo', 'bar', "baz".
> => please use `foo' consistently
Why that form? 'foo' is more correct for plain ASCII, unless and until we
develop some system for proper quotes (and likewise proper copyright
symbols) to be used when LC_MESSAGES=C if LC_CTYPE permits. Translations
should use (consistently) whatever form of quotes is linguistically
correct for that language, as long as the character set supports it, and
this is unlikely to be any of the ASCII forms.
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html
--
Joseph S. Myers
jsm@polyomino.org.uk