[PATCH] stat: reformat quoted file names

Seb sbb at tuxfamily.org
Sun Jun 13 09:29:25 UTC 2010


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.

Thanks,
Seb.



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