Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH 2/3] Use Unicode single quotes ‘’ in place of `' in strings throughout.
On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 08:10:48AM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
On 03/31/2017 04:32 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> See: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html
> ---
> +++ b/align/scan.c
> @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ static void __attribute__((noreturn))
> usage (int status)
> {
> if (status != EXIT_SUCCESS)
> - fprintf (stderr, _("Try `%s --help' for more information.\n"),
> + fprintf (stderr, _("Try ‘%s --help’ for more information.\n"),
> getprogname ());
The `' form of quoting is definitely out of style. But these days, it is
debatable whether ASCII '' or Unicode ‘’ is better as the default; since
it is still not guaranteed that everyone is using a UTF-8 console.
Coreutils uses '', if that helps the decision any, but I'm fine with
whatever you think looks best.
Assuming someone is using a non-utf-8 encoding (say euc-jp or
iso-8859-1), will these quotes be displayed properly? I mean, does
any conversion get done, or are the byte sequences simply dumped out
to the console?
Rich.
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