Paul Eggert wrote: > > If you improved this to test the locale_charset () for being "UTF-8", > > users would see the UTF-8 quotation marks even if translators didn't > > help. > > But then the problem is that there is no universal standard for UTF-8 > quotation marks either. I could use American English double quotes, > for example, but they will be just as unsuitable for (say) German.
That's right, yes. > Here's an amusing story about this. I just now visited the web page > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Quotation_marks_in_English> Hey, how about using this as a help for the translators. Here's a patch, that also marks the comment for extraction to the POT file. (Without the marker "TRANSLATORS:", the common po/Makefile.in.in does not extract a comment into the POT file.) > Some of the characters in that section are missing in my installation, > so, for example, U+201B (HTML: ‛) comes out as a splotch on my > screen. Looks fine for me: I guess I have more fonts installed than you :-). Indeed, Mozilla (though Xft) takes all scalable fonts it can get. Bruno *** quotearg.c 14 May 2005 06:03:58 -0000 1.44 --- quotearg.c 15 Jul 2005 11:02:23 -0000 *************** *** 222,228 **** case locale_quoting_style: case clocale_quoting_style: { ! /* Get translations for open and closing quotation marks. The message catalog should translate "`" to a left quotation mark suitable for the locale, and similarly for --- 222,229 ---- case locale_quoting_style: case clocale_quoting_style: { ! /* TRANSLATORS: ! Get translations for open and closing quotation marks. The message catalog should translate "`" to a left quotation mark suitable for the locale, and similarly for *************** *** 235,241 **** should translate "'" to U+201D (RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK). A British English Unicode locale should instead translate these to U+2018 (LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK) and ! U+2019 (RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK), respectively. */ char const *left = gettext_quote (N_("`"), quoting_style); char const *right = gettext_quote (N_("'"), quoting_style); --- 236,245 ---- should translate "'" to U+201D (RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK). A British English Unicode locale should instead translate these to U+2018 (LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK) and ! U+2019 (RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK), respectively. ! ! If you don't know what to put here, look it up in ! <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Quotation_marks_in_English> */ char const *left = gettext_quote (N_("`"), quoting_style); char const *right = gettext_quote (N_("'"), quoting_style); _______________________________________________ bug-gnulib mailing list bug-gnulib@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnulib
