Re: Quotation marks: Using =?windows-1252?Q?=93=94_instead_o?= =?windows-1252?Q?f_=22=22?=

From: Dan Winship <danw gnome org>
To: Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk>
Cc: Wouter Bolsterlee <uws+gnome xs4all nl>, desktop-devel-list gnome org
Subject: Re: Quotation marks: Using “” instead of ""
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:01:22 -0400

Alan Cox wrote:
> GTK/Glib are not the biggest problem here. You also use C library
> functions in Gnome applications. Glib/Gtk+ works with the C library in C
> locale simply because ASCII is a subset of UTF-8. That ceases to work the
> moment you introduce UTF-8 bytesequences into non utf-8 locales.

Are there actually legitimate reasons for anyone to ever use a non-UTF-8
locale these days?

-- Dan

Follow-Ups:
- Re: Quotation marks: Using =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=9C=E2=80=9D?= instead of ""
  - From: Bastien Nocera
- Re: Quotation marks: Using =?UTF-8?B?4oCc4oCd?= instead of ""
  - From: Alan Cox

References:
- =?UTF-8?Q?Re:_Quotation_marks:_Using_=E2=80=9C=E2=80=9D_instead_of_""?=
  - From: Alexander Jones
- Re: Quotation marks: Using =?UTF-8?B?4oCc4oCd?= instead of ""
  - From: Alan Cox
- Re: Quotation marks: Using =?utf-8?B?4oCc?= =?utf-8?B?4oCd?= instead of ""
  - From: Wouter Bolsterlee
- Re: Quotation marks: Using =?UTF-8?B?4oCc4oCd?= instead of ""
  - From: Alan Cox

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