Re: En-dash versus em-dash

[Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds gmail com>]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 11:08 PM, Philip Withnall
<philip tecnocode co uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 10:10 -0500, Pat Suwalski wrote:
>> On 12-12-10 09:57 AM, Philip Withnall wrote:
>> > Disclaimer: I’m en_GB. I’m not entirely sure that en_GB speakers should
>> > be deciding the style to use in the C locale, given that manuals of
>> > style differ between the UK and the US.
>>
>> You must mean en_US. The C locale should not have unicode in it.
>
> No, I mean the C locale. i.e. The strings in the source code. Using
> UTF-8 in them is fine as long as they only get passed to UTF-8 safe
> functions. All GNOME libraries explicitly expect input strings to be in
> UTF-8.

It means GNOME libraries are utf-8 capable. It does not mean we should
put utf-8 strings to the source code. Seriously, why not make these
changes en_US locale only?
-- 
Duy