[ID 20000902.012] backticks as smart quotes

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[ID 20000902.012] backticks as smart quotes

From:

Andreas J. Koenig

Date:

September 2, 2000 04:26

Subject:

[ID 20000902.012] backticks as smart quotes

Message ID:

200009021125.NAA05786@ak-72.mind.de


This is a bug report for perl from k@ak-72.mind.de,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.32 running under perl v5.7.0.


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This article by Markus Kuhn
  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html
points out that it is considered bad practice to use the backtick
as a left quote and that UNIX people should get rid of it.

Since I have XFree 4.0.1 with the now corrected fonts installed I
start to wish that perl would follow suite and change these bad quotes
to single ticks. A quick check reveals that 2949 lines in 391 files
need to be inspected semi-manually for this to happen.

Any opinions if/not/how to proceed?

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Flags:
    category=docs
    severity=low
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Site configuration information for perl v5.7.0:

Configured by k at Sat Sep  2 12:37:21 CEST 2000.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 7 subversion 0) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.2.15b, archname=i686-linux
    uname='linux ak-72.mind.de 2.2.15b #1 mon may 15 12:19:55 cest 2000 i686 unknown '
    config_args='-des -Dprefix=/usr/local/perl-5.6.0@7002 -Dusedevel -Doptimize=-g'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef
    useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', ccflags ='-DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64', optimize='-g', cppflags='-DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include'
    ccversion='', gccversion='egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lnsl -lndbm -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lc -lposix -lcrypt -lutil
    libc=/lib/libc-2.1.3.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic'
    cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    DEVEL7001

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@INC for perl v5.7.0:
    /usr/local/perl-5.6.0@7002/lib/5.7.0/i686-linux
    /usr/local/perl-5.6.0@7002/lib/5.7.0
    /usr/local/perl-5.6.0@7002/lib/site_perl/5.7.0/i686-linux
    /usr/local/perl-5.6.0@7002/lib/site_perl/5.7.0
    /usr/local/perl-5.6.0@7002/lib/site_perl
    .

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Environment for perl v5.7.0:
    HOME=/home/k
    LANG (unset)
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/uzr/local/sbin
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/zsh