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Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone
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Alvaro Herrera |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone |
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Sat, 17 Mar 2007 20:02:15 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
Nicolas Ruiz wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Thomas Moschny wrote:
> >> On Friday 16 March 2007, Lapo Luchini wrote:
> >>> « » really really look bad though...
> >> Those are french, aren't they?
> >
> > Those are used in spanish.
>
> Nobody told me to use those in all these years....
> </tongue_in_cheek>
That's because we're used to the more widespread plain double quotes
(""). But the cool guys say different. For example, check [1].
(BTW this guy says that these quotes should be used in french as well.)
The Debian spanish translation group agrees with me [2], so the «» quotes
are used pervasively there. I do that as well in Postgres, after
extensive investigation on the matter because my escepticism mirrored
yours.
[1] http://www.medtrad.org/panacea/IndiceGeneral/n11-editorialsousa.pdf
[2] http://www.debian.org/international/spanish/notas
--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/DXLWNGRJD34J
"Las mujeres son como hondas: mientras más resistencia tienen,
más lejos puedes llegar con ellas" (Jonas Nightingale, Leap of Faith)
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, (continued)
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker, 2007/03/15
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, Ralf S. Engelschall, 2007/03/15
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker, 2007/03/15
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, Lapo Luchini, 2007/03/15
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, Zack Weinberg, 2007/03/15
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, Thomas Moschny, 2007/03/15
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, Lapo Luchini, 2007/03/15
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, Thomas Moschny, 2007/03/15
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, Alvaro Herrera, 2007/03/15
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, Nicolas Ruiz, 2007/03/17
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone,
Alvaro Herrera <=
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, Nicolas Ruiz, 2007/03/17
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, Lapo Luchini, 2007/03/18
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, Nicolas Ruiz, 2007/03/18
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker, 2007/03/15
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, Zack Weinberg, 2007/03/15
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, Lapo Luchini, 2007/03/16
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, Justin Patrin, 2007/03/15
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, Zack Weinberg, 2007/03/15
Re: [Monotone-devel] Messages in monotone, Thomas Moschny, 2007/03/15
Re: [Monotone-devel] Messages in monotone, Nathaniel Smith, 2007/03/15