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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 08:26:57PM +0000, 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?

My vote is for "%s" for the simple reason that "untranslated" strings
in KiCad are effectively in en_US, and the quotation convention in
American English is to use "" for outer quotes and '' for nested inner
quotes. I've only seen <> as a convention for quoting email addresses
(if we're using them somewhere I wonder if that derives from «»).

> 
>    Simon
>