Re: Fwd: Smart quotes patch

From: Dominic Lachowicz <domlachowicz_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed Feb 06 2008 - 16:46:04 CET

On Feb 6, 2008 10:34 AM, Hubert Figuiere <hfiguiere@teaser.fr> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 08:18 +0000, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
>
> > This should be pretty easy to implement properly; I think all we need is
> > to add tokens to the XAP string tables for LQUOTE, RQUOTE, LDOUBLEQUOTE
> > and RDOUBLEQUOTE, and instead of having the characters hardcoded, we can
> > do a normal XAPString lookup. Then we can leave it to the translators to
> > prescribe different characters than the default where desired.
>
> Doesn't the locale specifies it?

No. At least not as far as localeconv() is concerned.

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/locale.h.html

Dom
Received on Wed Feb 6 16:52:14 2008

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