[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Berry) writes:
> Is it true that if some environment variable (LANG?) is set to
> something (e.g., fr_FR?) that a "translation" of ` and ' will be
> used?
Yes.
> Looking at quotearg.h, it seems so. Do any translations in
> fact do this?
Yes. For example, coreutils/po/de.po contains this:
#: lib/quotearg.c:240
msgid "`"
msgstr "„"
#: lib/quotearg.c:241
msgid "'"
msgstr "“"
(pardon the non-ASCII chars), which I trust are the proper quote marks
for German.
However, I just checked the translations for coreutils and got the
following depressing statistics.
Coreutils has 36 translations.
Of them, 21 do not translate ` and ', which indicates that either the
translators don't understand the convention or they can't think of
anything better than ` and ' in their encodings either.
6 transliterate ` and ' both to the same string, which seems
even worse:
4 translate both to "
bg fi gl sv
da translates both to '
ms translates both to `
2 translate both to the empty string. Ouch!:
no pt
The following 7 translations use nice-looking quotes for their
languages:
ca de es nb sl zh_CH zh_TW
7 out of 34 is not a very good batting average. Perhaps if we start
recommending the quote module, things will improve; but I guess we
shouldn't pretend everything will look nice right away.
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