Eric Blake wrote: > According to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 3/15/2008 10:33 PM: > | (P.S., you might enjoy writing `' instead of "", but it just leads to > | cut and paste accidents sent to the shell, for me at least, about > | twice a year. > > You do realize that it is possible to create a custom LC_MESSAGES locale > which translates the strings "`" and "'" to your preferred quote strings? > ~ For that matter, the [EMAIL PROTECTED] locale already does most of that - on > capable terminals, it uses nicer-looking quotes and bolds the output (and > since those quotes aren't active shell characters, copy-n-paste is less > likely to cause accidents), and on less capable terminals, the output is > transliterated to "\"" and "\"" rather than "`" and "'".
[EMAIL PROTECTED] doesn't change anything on my Fedora 8 or Ubuntu 7.10 installs Anyway I don't think this should be locale dependent. The main place I notice this is for the find man page. If you cut & paste the examples from there you get the funny quote characters. Given it's going to be newer users that tend to do that, it will be especially confusing. Pádraig. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
