Perfect. Thank you!
Martin
On Mar 6, 2010, at 10:35 AM, Ken Thomases wrote:
> On Mar 6, 2010, at 2:53 AM, Martin Hewitson wrote:
>
>> I guess this is an easy question, but I couldn't find the answer with google
>> (probably due to difficulties in phrasing the question).
>>
>> If one looks in Xcode under: File->Close File "foo.m"
>>
>> then one sees 'proper' opening and closing quotation marks. When I put
>> quotation marks in a string in my own menu (setTitle:) then I just get
>> 'normal' quotation marks.
>>
>> Does anyone know how to achieve the 'proper' quotation marks?
>
> Those are sometimes referred to as typesetter's quotes or smart quotes
> (although the latter really refers to the software feature which converts
> straight quotes to typesetter's quotes automatically).
>
> There are a few ways. You can type those characters using the U.S. keyboard
> layout with Option-[ and Option-Shift-[. If you go this route, you should
> probably set the file's encoding as UTF-8. Use Xcode's File > Get Info menu
> item on the file.
>
> Those characters are U+201C and U+201D. You can also put them into a string
> using the \unnnn escape sequence. So, something like:
>
> [NSString stringWithFormat:@"\u20...@\u201d", [[NSFileManager
> defaultManager] displayNameAtPath:somePath]]
>
> will quote the display name of a file. (Always use the display name of file
> system items for the GUI.)
>
> Neither of the above techniques work with GCC 4.0.x, which is required when
> building against the 10.4 SDK. If you're using that version of the compiler,
> you can instead combine NSLocalizedString and friends, the \\Unnnn escape
> sequence (notice the double backslashes), and the -u option to genstrings.
> Then, your compiled code will have somewhat odd pure ASCII strings in it, but
> at runtime they will be looked up in the .strings file, which can return the
> proper strings with the typesetter's quotes embedded in them.
>
> To get the typesetter's single quotes, the key combinations are Option-] and
> Option-Shift-]. The Unicode codepoints are U+2018 and U+2019.
>
> Cheers,
> Ken
>
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