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bug #52374: src: Migrate diagnostic messages away from `quotes like this'

Submitted by:  G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
Submitted on:  Thu 09 Nov 2017 12:01:26 PM UTC  
 
Category: NoneSeverity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: WishlistStatus: Fixed
Privacy: PublicAssigned to: G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
Open/Closed: OpenPlanned Release: None

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Thu 09 Nov 2017 08:07:52 PM UTC, comment #3:
Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig>
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.

G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
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Thu 09 Nov 2017 02:44:46 PM UTC, comment #1:

Sounds sensible, so please proceed.

Werner LEMBERG <wl>
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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.

G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
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