Re: Back quote typo in error messages (?)

From: Fabrizio Cucci <fabrizio.cucci@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 15, 2017, 21:51 UTC
Message-ID: <CAOxYW4xqk4j6Uu86jq2Vi9Bpgihxfr2Tw-DQLc+7YTZiPmDtiA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170215212157.qgscyglgzrd5cplf@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On 15 February 2017 at 21:21, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 09:06:46PM +0000, Fabrizio Cucci wrote:
>> Shouldn't the wrong flag be surrounded by two single quotes instead of
>> a back quote and a single quote?
>
> Some people use the matched backtick/single-quote to emulate the
> non-symmetric start/end quotes used in traditional typography (and in
> fact, ``foo'' in languages like asciidoc are typically rendered using
> smart-quotes).

I definitely didn't know about the use of them in traditional typography! But I couldn't find any example of non-symmetric quotes in AsciiDoc...

> So I think what you are seeing is not wrong in the sense of being
> unintended by the author of the message.

I had the opposite impression from the quick search in the GitHub repo, this is why I wrote here looking for some confirmation.

> I don't know how much we care about standardizing that punctuation.

I mentioned it was very minor but, still, in my opinion a project like Git deserves consistent punctuation! :)