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On Wednesday 18 April 2012 16:39:53 Tom Tromey wrote: > >>>>> "John" == John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com> writes: > John> PS: When did g++ start outputting non-ascii (Unicode) backquotes > John> and forward-quotes in its error messages? That's truly ugly. Look > John> at the compiler output in Emacs, for example. > > There's some long threads about this all over GNUdom. > I can't remember when, it seems like a long time ago now. at least they've started moving away from the left quote being a backtick. but yes, i believe GNU projects have been doing unicode quotes for a while. recent gnulib commit: commit 1a43a982c927eaf26bbc2701a872009d9be4b33b Author: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org> Date: Sun Dec 18 15:44:17 2011 +0100 quotearg: do not use grave accent for left quote * lib/quotearg.c (gettext_quote): Map "`" to "'" for locale_quoting_style. (quotearg_buffer_restyled): Fix example. * tests/test-quotearg-simple.c (results_g): Adjust test vectors. and indeed, grep-2.11 says: Try 'grep --help' for more information. where it once said: Try `grep --help' for more information. -mike
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