Taylor Blau <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 06:17:45PM +0700, Bagas Sanjaya wrote: >> There is a quoting mismatch quoting `--` separator in "no usage string >> given...." message (`' instead of ``). Fix it. > > For what it's worth, I think that the `' style is typographic, since the > pair look like English "smart quotes" (as opposed to straight quotes). I > have no opinion about which is better, but I don't think the pre-image > was necessarily a mistake. I thought that we try to avoid "smart quotes" in our messages. And we do not expect our users to be expecting to read their error messages in markdown, so `--` is not a "Fix", either (do we have many instances of such uses of backticks in messages already?). Let's just stick to the true and tried pair of single quotes here. Thanks.
