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Re: Quotation marks: Using “” instead of ""
- From: Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk>
- To: Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>
- Cc: Wouter menubar gnome org, Iain * <iaingnome gmail com>, Dan Winship <danw gnome org>, Bolsterlee <uws+gnome xs4all nl>, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>, desktop-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Quotation marks: Using “” instead of ""
- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:51:13 +0100
> > They work perfectly when you pass them UTF-8 data no matter what your locale.
>
> Just to back this up:
>
> http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/gtk-question-index.html#id2776084
Cool - so for anything which doesn't touch the C library directly you can
write _("\xABCD") type stuff for smart quotes and be in spec (except for
the po tools which actually all seem entirely happy with utf-8 msgid).
That makes most of it much easier to do.
Alan
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