Re: [GHC] #2507: quotation characters in error messages

25 Feb 2014

      #2507: quotation characters in error messages
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        Reporter:  Isaac Dupree      |            Owner:
            Type:  feature request   |           Status:  patch
        Priority:  lowest            |        Milestone:  7.6.2
       Component:  Compiler          |          Version:  6.8.3
      Resolution:                    |         Keywords:
Operating System:  Unknown/Multiple  |     Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple
 Type of failure:  None/Unknown      |       Difficulty:  Unknown
       Test Case:                    |       Blocked By:
        Blocking:                    |  Related Tickets:  #2811,#3398
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Comment (by Herbert Valerio Riedel ):

 In [changeset:"018676c7f883886b388652c913c99a10d2591b0b/ghc"]:
 {{{
 #!CommitTicketReference repository="ghc"
 revision="018676c7f883886b388652c913c99a10d2591b0b"
 Use U+2018 instead of U+201B quote mark in compiler messages

 This matches GCC's choice of Unicode quotation marks (i.e. U+2018 and
 U+2019)
 and therefore looks more familiar on the console. This addresses #2507.

 Signed-off-by: Herbert Valerio Riedel 
 }}}

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