GCC 's quoting typographic conventions

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Paul Schlie <schlie@comcast.net> writes:

| > From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>
| >
| > Another tool can't do anything typographical without the necessary
| > information.  With the matched quotes, however, it could e.g. place the
| > contents of the quotes in a fixed-width font.
| 
| - like parse it?? (but then again, somewhat ironically, GCC can't parse
|   its own pretty quotes, nor should it have to)

But again, if you want to have ASCII quotes, you can have it.  Just
use LANG=C.  It is not that someone ie taking away that option.

And you "ironic argument" about GCC unable to parse its own pretty
quotes is pure nonsense:  The diagnostics pretty-quotes or not are not
things GCC parses.  

-- Gaby