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

From: Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk>
To: Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>
Cc: desktop-devel-list gnome org
Subject: Re: Quotation marks: Using “” instead of ""
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 16:54:25 +0100

> Don't we already have plenty of non-ASCII POT files?
> I know gnome-doc-utils is non-ASCII.

That would be a bug...

> that we've had all this functionality for quite a while, but
> we're still typing as if we're on old typewriters.  What do
> we need to do, as programmers, to get the world out of its
> ASCII rut?

Put the English quotes in the en_US and en_GB translations, put German
quotes in the de ones and so on.

Alan

Follow-Ups:
- =?UTF-8?Q?Re:_Quotation_marks:_Using_=E2=80=9C=E2=80=9D_instead_of_""?=
  - From: Pat Suwalski
- Re: Quotation marks: Using =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=9C=E2=80=9D?= instead of ""
  - From: Shaun McCance

References:
- Quotation marks: Using =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=9C=E2=80=9D?= instead of ""
  - From: Christian Neumair
- =?UTF-8?Q?Re:_Quotation_marks:_Using_=E2=80=9C=E2=80=9D_instead_of_""?=
  - From: Pat Suwalski
- Re: Quotation marks: Using =?UTF-8?B?4oCc4oCdIGluc3RlYWQgb2YgIiI=?=
  - From: Simos Xenitellis
- Re: Quotation marks: Using =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=9C=E2=80=9D?= instead of ""
  - From: Shaun McCance

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