Hello Christian, On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 07:38:55AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Helge Kreutzmann (deb...@helgefjell.de): > > Also I noticed that you use \" to mark quotes, which I believe is > > deprecated. Unfortunately I don't have a reference handy, please > > consult Christian (in CC) for details. > > > gettext tools always escape double quotes in PO files. That behaviour > never changed. You *must* do this and, for instance, gettext editors > still do it.
I know I need to escape this type of quotes but I thought that using "
as quote sign was deprecated. For example in early computer
typography in German we used " as well, but now we either use »« to
denote quotes or (sorry, no UTF-8 here ATM) something like ,, `` as
quotes. In English I often also see '' as quote signs. I thought (but
I might be wrong) that there used to be some consensus / style to
switch from " to something else (probably '` or similar) in English as
well.
But if this thought is in error please ignore it.
Greetings
Helge
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