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Re: [PATCH] standards: rewrite section on quoting


From: Paolo Bonzini
Subject: Re: [PATCH] standards: rewrite section on quoting
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:09:32 +0100
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On 12/21/2011 01:11 AM, Paul Smith wrote:
I don't understand how to reconcile these two paragraphs.

The first paragraph above says use '...'.  The second says that
translators will translate "`" to an opening quote and "'" to a closing
quote... but I won't have those in my code if I follow the direction in
the first paragraph.

The second says that translators will translate the "`" string to an opening quote and "'" to a closing quote. They will translate "'%s'" to "<LQ>%s<RQ>" (where LQ and RQ are opening and closing quotes).

Example:

    "`"     ->      "ā€˜"
    "'"     ->      "ā€™"
    "'%s'"  ->      "ā€˜%sā€™"

The problem is simply that when you're translating a single quote, using "'" is ambiguous.

Paolo



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