[Scons-users] Improper use of directional quotes

Mats Wichmann mats at wichmann.us
Thu Feb 20 10:21:37 EST 2020


On 2/19/20 3:53 PM, Scott Johnson wrote:
> I noticed this use of the grave accent and apostrophe characters as a
> way to imitate directional quotes:
> 
> scons: `.' is up to date.
> 
> See here for why this is a bad practice (written
> 1999): https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html
> 
> It should use either identical apostrophes, or Unicode directional quotes.
> 
> Should I send a Pull Request? (If so should I use Unicode?)

There are a *lot* of these, with testcases that expect the backquote in
responses from scons.  It wouldn't be a tiny PR...




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