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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 03:56:20PM -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> 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.

Frankly if you're putting arbitrary strings into something that
interprets the input as HTML, you should be running through an escape
function first _anyway_, and that should automatically replace < and >
with &lt; and &gt; ...

> 
> 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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