Re: Quotation marks: Using “” instead of ""

[Pat Suwalski <pat suwalski net>]

My objection may seem silly, but since there is no way to type it on any 
keyboard out there, that's a bit of a hindrance. Short of using the 
character map and searching, one has to resolve to using "smart 
substitution" editors like OpenOffice to get the characters.

They also tend to fail horribly when pasting into a non-Unicode 
terminal, which is still often the case over SSH. Probably not a huge 
desktop consideration, though. Every distribution I know of uses Unicode 
by default on the local terminal at this point.

--Pat

Christian Neumair wrote:
> Alex Jones proposed [1] to change the quotation marks in Nautilus
> strings from the ASCII representation "..." to the unicode variant
> “...”.
>
> I think the proposed quotation marks are aesthetically more pleasing,
> but I don't want to change this unless there is a GNOME-wide policy.
>
> I hereby propose to establish a GNOME policy of using “...” for
> quotations. Comments, objections?
>
> best regards,
>  Christian Neumair
>
> [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=532777