GCC 's quoting typographic conventions

[Paul Schlie]

- regardless of the relative merit of the feature, I agree that it's
  not worth pursuing debate on a subject which some may have a vested
  emotional and/or sweat interest in; and as you note, can be relatively
  easily worked around, so arguably moot.

Thanks, -paul-

(please consider the below citation only a contextual reference)

From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@cs.tamu.edu>
> 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