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[John Lenton <john.lenton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> No need to mansplain.

I was answering your previous "Not all languages use English quotation
marks."

> Better explain to me something I don’t know: why is this the first
time a new placeholder “%q” has been needed?

It's not the first time a language has a field specifier that's not part of C's printf. Python has %r for example, which means "pass the argument through repr()". Similarly, Go has %q which means "Treat as %s, but then pass it through strutil.Quote before actually printing".
It's a convenience.

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Title:
  Strings with placeholders don’t include quotation marks so they can’t
  be changed per locale

Status in snapd:
  Triaged
Status in Ubuntu Translations:
  Triaged
Status in snapd package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Strings like [1] are provided to translators like this:

     %s not installed↲

  … which is rendered in the program like this:

     "<snap>" not installed

  … or in Spanish:

     "<snap>" no instalado

  … instead of the correct

     «<snap>» no instalado

  Not all languages use English quotation marks. [2]
  Please include the quotation marks in the translatable string so that they can be customized to fit the typographical requirements of each language.

  
  [1]: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/cosmic/+source/snapd/+pots/snappy/es/10/+translate
  [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Summary_table

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