Re: Why `%s'?
Hi Daniel,
Daniel Bock wrote:
> Why there's `%s' instead of '%s' in dpkg's messages?
It’s a historical thing[1]. On old terminals, the former looks
like ‘%s’ and the latter like ’%s’. dpkg is slowly moving away
from that[2]. doc/coding-style.txt explains:
On strings in code use simple or double quotes «''» «""». Not the unpaired
ones «`'». Strings marked for translation should only be fixed if there's
other changes to be done on them; otherwise we get unneeded fuzzies.
<http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html>
[1] Still encouraged by
http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Quote-Characters.html#Quote-Characters
but that is probably for historical reasons, too.
[2] e.g., see http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2009/09/msg00067.html
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