[PATCH] stat: reformat quoted file names
walter harms
wharms at bfs.de
Sun Jun 13 10:20:21 UTC 2010
Seb schrieb:
> Le Sat, 12 Jun 2010 22:02:31 +0200
> Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux at googlemail.com> a écrit:
>
>
>> Busybox consistently uses 'string' instead of `string' quoting in messages.
>> In the font I use, ` and ' look entirely different (they aren't
>> mirror images of each other).
>
> It looks the same in my font, I don't know why they chose such a fashion. Maybe
> an old typo error due to X rendering that they don't fix to not break
> existing scripts:
>
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html
>
>> Thus I used this style here too.
>
> According to the link above, you were absolutely right.
>
The quotes are language sensitiv this is obvious when you see the uotput of
LANG=de_DE
„/dev/cdrom“ -> „sr0“
and LANG=C
`/dev/cdrom' -> `sr0'
What ever your language set defines as Start/End quotation mark is used.
It has nothing todo with fonts (to some extend).
hope that helps,
re,
wh
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