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Re: [bug-gnulib] Re: quoting in gnulib
From: |
Paul Eggert |
Subject: |
Re: [bug-gnulib] Re: quoting in gnulib |
Date: |
Fri, 15 Jul 2005 14:02:55 -0700 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:
> Hey, how about using this as a help for the translators.
Thanks. I installed that, with a minor change to the URL and its
associated text, as follows:
--- quotearg.c 14 May 2005 06:03:58 -0000 1.44
+++ quotearg.c 15 Jul 2005 21:01:41 -0000 1.45
@@ -222,7 +222,8 @@ quotearg_buffer_restyled (char *buffer,
case locale_quoting_style:
case clocale_quoting_style:
{
- /* Get translations for open and closing quotation marks.
+ /* TRANSLATORS:
+ Get translations for open and closing quotation marks.
The message catalog should translate "`" to a left
quotation mark suitable for the locale, and similarly for
@@ -235,7 +236,11 @@ quotearg_buffer_restyled (char *buffer,
should translate "'" to U+201D (RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION
MARK). A British English Unicode locale should instead
translate these to U+2018 (LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK) and
- U+2019 (RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK), respectively. */
+ U+2019 (RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK), respectively.
+
+ If you don't know what to put here, please see
+ <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Glyphs>
+ and use glyphs suitable for your language. */
char const *left = gettext_quote (N_("`"), quoting_style);
char const *right = gettext_quote (N_("'"), quoting_style);