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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

I typically use '%s' mainly because it's easier than escaping the double
quote but I'm not opposed to "%s".  <%s> should be avoided because some
text controls interpret the <> as html tags.  I thought we got ride of
most if not all of the <%s> occurrences but apparently not.

On 11/29/2017 3:26 PM, Simon Richter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> we don't seem to have a consistent convention on quoting in messages
> shown to the user, and thus we have all three of
> 
>     '%s'
>     "%s"
>     <%s>
> 
> in format strings when referring to names (files, nets, netclasses, …).
> 
> For the untranslated strings, I'd prefer either double or single quotes,
> while translated messages should probably use the locale appropriate
> quoting format.
> 
> Which should it be?
> 
>    Simon
> 
> 
> 
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