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[Joseph S. Myers]

On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Frank Klemm wrote:

> For a good explanation of the problem see also:
> 
>     http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html

I previously pointed this out on gcc-patches
<URL: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2001-02/msg01023.html >.  The proper
solution (working e.g. with modern X installations) involves using the
Unicode quotes where possible.  Perhaps you would like to work out with
the maintainers of the GNU Coding Standards the best way of handling this
for diagnostic strings, and with the Texinfo maintainers how to transition
the Info format?  Remember that the Texinfo source files of the manual are
TeX input files and so this usage is correct there; the Info manual is
inevitably going to be much uglier than the printed one, but in principle
it should be possible to use the Unicode quotes there (with makeinfo
translating in ordinary text but not @code/@samp).

I.e., work out the *right* long-term solution first rather than changing
huge numbers of diagnostics twice (with consequent changes in all the
translations - though since GNU libc 2.2 supports transliteration of
message catalogs, translators could (should?) be using Unicode quotes in
their translated messages and UTF-8 encoded .po files now).

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk