Thu 09 Nov 2017 08:07:52 PM UTC, comment #3:
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Thu 09 Nov 2017 03:05:11 PM UTC, comment #2:
Thanks, Werner!
In a fit of optimism, I am already under way.
I haven't managed to break the build yet, and I've hit every subdirectory of src except preproc.
I sure do wish we had a test suite that exercised all the error and warning paths in src/roff/troff/input.cpp, though.
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Thu 09 Nov 2017 12:01:26 PM UTC, original submission:
Recently (and at long last) GNU tools have begun migrating away from using grave accents and apostrophes as if they were mirror-symmetrical quotation marks.
For example, GNU diff has stayed within ASCII and simple uses "straight" single quotes (apostrophes) to mark literals within diagnostics:
GCC has gone even further and uses actual Unicode quotation marks.
As groff does not appear to be internationalized, and local detection and message catalogs would be necessary to quote in the GCC style, I propose to follow GNU diff's example.
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