[bug #34530] make (ab)uses the ASCII grave accent (0x60) as a left single quotation mark

[Paul D. Smith]

Update of bug #34530 (project make):

                  Status:                    None => Later                  
           Triage Status:                    None => Medium Effort          

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Follow-up Comment #1:

I'm not too excited about GNU make becoming the poster child for the
remediation of this behavior.  As Markus points out, this issue is endemic
throughout all GNU programs.  Also the last time this came up (quite a while
ago) there was a discussion with a number of the maintainers of other GNU
projects (but now I can't find it after searching through some likely-looking
lists) and it seemed people didn't think this was something we should do.

Of course maybe that's changed since: Markus is right IMO that every year this
gets more annoying.

If there's some kind of general decision that going forward GNU projects
should move back to '' rather than `' I'll be happy to fix GNU make (although
translators will hate me...)

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