On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 20:39, Paul Eggert <[email protected]> wrote: > This proposed patch is too strong, as it says that locale-specific > quotes in English messages should use British-English style quoting > (with single quotes) and it discourages American English quoting, > (with double quotes). Many (perhaps most) GNU programs use American > English spelling
Actually, the only GNU program that I know using Unicode quotes in an en_US.UTF-8 locale (i.e. without the @quot catalog) is GCC, and it uses single quotes. In my opinion, single quotes are a good compromise. In the program output, they look like the C locale alternative; in a manual, you can quote the entire message with italics and satisfy British style; if you quote instead the entire message with double quotes, the single quotes are good as American-style inner quotes. Paolo
