GCC 's quoting typographic conventions

[Joe Buck]

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.