Carl Lowenstein wrote: > I am trying to port a program, namely "checkinstall", to my 64-bit > Alpha. Working remotely through ssh. > > The OS is the port to Alpha of Fedora Core 5. The compiler is > gcc version 4.1.1 20060525 (Red Hat 4.1.1-1) > > There are, of course, compiler warnings and errors. The messages are > hard to understand because variable names are quoted using smart left > and right single quotes. > > The terminal emulator that I am using to read the compiler diagnostic > output can not cope with these quotes. It is gnome-terminal 2.7.3 on > one of my local systems and gnome-terminal 2.16.0 on the other. The > visible rendering of the symbols is different on the two terminal > emulators, but equally hard to read. > > For what it's worth, a left quote is hex e2 80 98 and a right quote > is e2 80 99 > > I can read the messages by sending them to a file and then using "gedit". > > Can anyone think of a reason why gcc was made to do this? Or have > some idea of when it happened? Or suggest something better in the way > of a terminal emulator? >
Lookling into some of my old output dumps from compiles and rpm rebuilds, I see 2 kinds of quoting, one uses the good old simple single (apostrophe) before and after. The other use backquote in the leading position. I didn't see any of those (other) dumb quotes (although I think the backtick is plenty bad enough. I have my locale at utf8, but I bet my rpm tools use LC_CTYPE=C. In your case, you might try LC_CTYPE=C make or export LC_CTYPE=C, I suppose. I've had to do similar to this when printing man pages! Regards, ..jim -- KPLUG-LPSG@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
