Re: stat -f output standpoint

[Pádraig Brady]

Eric Blake wrote:
> According to address@hidden on 3/15/2008 10:33 PM:
> | (P.S., you might enjoy writing `' instead of "", but it just leads to
> | cut and paste accidents sent to the shell, for me at least, about
> | twice a year.
> 
> You do realize that it is possible to create a custom LC_MESSAGES locale
> which translates the strings "`" and "'" to your preferred quote strings?
> ~ For that matter, the address@hidden locale already does most of that - on
> capable terminals, it uses nicer-looking quotes and bolds the output (and
> since those quotes aren't active shell characters, copy-n-paste is less
> likely to cause accidents), and on less capable terminals, the output is
> transliterated to "\"" and "\"" rather than "`" and "'".

address@hidden doesn't change anything on my Fedora 8 or Ubuntu 7.10 installs
Anyway I don't think this should be locale dependent.

The main place I notice this is for the find man page.
If you cut & paste the examples from there you get
the funny quote characters. Given it's going to be
newer users that tend to do that, it will be especially confusing.

Pádraig.