URL:
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Summary: make (ab)uses the ASCII grave accent (0x60) as a
left single quotation mark
Project: make
Submitted by: dankegel
Submitted on: Tue 11 Oct 2011 04:58:03 PM GMT
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Enhancement
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Component Version: 3.82
Operating System: None
Fixed Release: None
Triage Status: None
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Details:
As Markus wrote in
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-make/2004-10/msg00013.html
gnu make uses funny quotes in error messages.
This behavior persists in Make 3.82.
Here's his original message:
$ make --version GNU Make 3.80
$ make love
make: *** No rule to make target `love'. Stop.
^
The use of ASCII character 0x60 as a left single quotation mark is deprecated
and looks today rather ugly with most contemporary fonts.
Suggested behavior (in the C and POSIX locales, i.e. without translation):
$ make love
make: *** No rule to make target 'love'. Stop.
^
In other locales, such as en_*.UTF-8, the straight single quotation mark
(U+0027) can easily be translated via gettext() with the typographically
nicer ones (U+2018 and U+2019) available in UTF-8 and some other
encodings.
Suggested fix:
a) s/`/'/g
b) use Unicode quotation marks in the translations for
en_GB.UTF-8 and en_US.UTF-8
Detailed background information:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html
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