`' quotes in messages (was Re: Success (mostly) with the testsuite)

[Raja R Harinath]

Alexandre Oliva <address@hidden> writes:
> >          test -f "$f" || { echo "configure: error: cannot find input file 
> > \\\`$f'" >&2; exit 1; }
[snip] 
> Maybe we should set ac_backquote and ac_singlequote upfront, and use
> it in error messages instead?

On a tangent, do we still want to use `...' quotes?  The latest
XFree86 fonts do not show these as symmetric open and close quotes.
The "`" is more slanted, and the "'" looks like on the PC (a vertical
quote, which can be used for both open and close).

- hari
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