Re: Quotation marks: Using =?UTF-8?B?4oCc4oCd?= instead of ""

From: Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk>
To: Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>
Cc: Dan Winship <danw gnome org>, Wouter Bolsterlee <uws+gnome xs4all nl>, desktop-devel-list gnome org
Subject: Re: Quotation marks: Using “” instead of ""
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:59:00 +0100

> > Are there actually legitimate reasons for anyone to ever use a non-UTF-8
> > locale these days?
> 
> Other than legacy, and wanting to find bugs in programs? Probably not...
> Maybe somebody should break the compatibility view and make the C locale
> UTF-8.

Well you can certainly submit a proposal to the C language standards
committee and the POSIX standards committee. We don't control C locale
definitions - they do, and the tool writers work to their definitions.

Alan

Follow-Ups:
- =?UTF-8?Q?Re:_Quotation_marks:_Using_=E2=80=9C=E2=80=9D_instead_of_""?=
  - From: Alexander Jones

References:
- =?UTF-8?Q?Re:_Quotation_marks:_Using_=E2=80=9C=E2=80=9D_instead_of_""?=
  - From: Alexander Jones
- Re: Quotation marks: Using =?UTF-8?B?4oCc4oCd?= instead of ""
  - From: Alan Cox
- Re: Quotation marks: Using =?utf-8?B?4oCc?= =?utf-8?B?4oCd?= instead of ""
  - From: Wouter Bolsterlee
- Re: Quotation marks: Using =?UTF-8?B?4oCc4oCd?= instead of ""
  - From: Alan Cox
- Re: Quotation marks: Using =?windows-1252?Q?=93=94_instead_o?= =?windows-1252?Q?f_=22=22?=
  - From: Dan Winship
- Re: Quotation marks: Using =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=9C=E2=80=9D?= instead of ""
  - From: Bastien Nocera

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