Re: Quotation marks: Using “” instead of ""

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O/H Shaun McCance έγραψε:
> On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 17:36 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
>   
> > > Honestly, other than being pedantic, I don't see the
> > > problem with UTF-8 in the C locale.  Does it cause
> > > any *actual* problems?  I've never once gotten a bug
> > > report against g-d-u about this.
> > >       
> > Sort order, comparisons, printing, string lengths when using locale aware
> > functions, and no doubt a few more that for the moment have escaped me.
> >
> > Use the tools to spec and you get reliable predictable results, do
> > otherwise and it all gets sloppy and buggy. Would you rely on undefined C
> > behaviour in Gnome code ?
> >
> > The discussions about it being work are also bollocks (to use a fine bit
> > of en_GB). Make was invented to handle such trivial tasks for you.
> >     
>
> OK, time for a concrete example.  I'm writing a dialog
> with the following message:
>
>   The file “%s” could not be found.
>
> This is a message that gets put onto a gray box on the
> screen.  It's not put into any sort of list that gets
> sorted.  I'm not comparing it to anything or taking its
> length (and if I were, I'd use the GLib functions which
> Do The Right Thing).
>
> If I have to use the en translation, then I have to put
> this string in the source code:
>
>   The file "%s" could not be found.
>
> Then I have to run 'intltool-update en', open en.po,
> and add the translation.  That's more steps, none of
> which involve make.  How does make help me?
>   
I suppose make would invoke the script that would do the menial task for 
the en translations.
You normally would not edit by hand the en/en_US translations.

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