On 12/20/11 12:11, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > single quotes are a good compromise. In the program > output, they look like the C locale alternative
But that's true regardless of whether one uses single or double quotes. Either way, the program's output looks like the C locale alternative. It's more consistent, for programs that use American spelling and style, to use ASCII double quotes in the C locale, and Unicode double-quotes in Unicode locales. > 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. GCC may use single quotes for many of its messages, but that doesn't mean that all GNU programs should use that quoting style. Many GNU programs use double-quotes in diagnostics. In many cases GCC uses double-quotes too. For example: error: unterminated argument list invoking macro "FOO" The GNU coding standards should not be suggesting that there's anything wrong with this commonly-used quoting style.
