[debbugs-tracker] bug#25495: closed (WTF? Chmod (and presumably other coreutils) corrupt their own error messages with "smart" quotes...)

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corrupt their own error messages with "smart" quotes...
has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #25495,
regarding WTF? Chmod (and presumably other coreutils) corrupt their own error 
messages with "smart" quotes...
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> Hi,
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> Recently, while browsing error mails of some cron jobs, I noticed that
> chmod puts "smart" quotes into its error messages.
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> IMHO, such gimmicks should have no place in core utilities.
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> At least this behavior should be optional via configuration or
> environment setting (preferably off by default).
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> The faulty code lives in lib/quotearg.c in function gettext_quote
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> Even defining a custom locale that just maps quotes to themselves
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> (translation same as msgid), and then "manually" garbles the quotes.
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> Who came up with this? :-)
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> Thanks for fixing this,
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> Alain
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> Alain Knaff wrote:
> > $ LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 chmod 0 ffff
> > chmod: cannot access ‘ffff’: No such file or directory
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> It looks like you're using an old version of coreutils. The current version 
> outputs ASCII apostrophes there. This was a change committed on 2015-11-04 and 
> released in coreutils 8.25; it makes it easier to cut and paste file names from 
> diagnostics into shells.
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> Since the reported behavior is already fixed I'm taking the liberty of closing 
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