From df44f13f5e4722cf9bae00e906e1c69fd3354e77 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Blake Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:55:57 -0600 Subject: Be more explicit about default quoting characters. * doc/m4.texinfo (Quoted strings): Call out characters by name. * THANKS: Update. Suggested by Mehul Sanghvi. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake (cherry picked from commit 1f6f9cd34d9b8b1bf369e4cb749145256d0f33d7) --- ChangeLog | 7 +++++++ THANKS | 1 + doc/m4.texinfo | 4 +++- 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 00e4ee93..7e38a6ff 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +2009-04-21 Eric Blake + + Be more explicit about default quoting characters. + * doc/m4.texinfo (Quoted strings): Call out characters by name. + * THANKS: Update. + Suggested by Mehul Sanghvi. + 2009-04-16 Eric Blake Use gnulib rename module. diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS index 84b366b0..4a2d06cd 100644 --- a/THANKS +++ b/THANKS @@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ Massimo Dal Zotto dz@cs.unitn.it Matt Kraai kraai@debian.org Matthew Woehlke mw_triad@users.sourceforge.net Matthias Rabe rabe@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de +Mehul Sanghvi mehul.sanghvi@gmail.com Michael Fetterman mafetter@ichips.intel.com Michael L. Welcome welcome@bigbird.llnl.gov Mike Andrews kramer@fragile.termfrost.org diff --git a/doc/m4.texinfo b/doc/m4.texinfo index d641eebb..6408881b 100644 --- a/doc/m4.texinfo +++ b/doc/m4.texinfo @@ -1181,7 +1181,9 @@ changed at any time, using the builtin macro @code{changesyntax}. @cindex string, quoted A quoted string is a sequence of characters surrounded by quote strings, defaulting to -@samp{`} and @samp{'}, where the nested begin and end quotes within the +@samp{`} (grave-accent, also known as back-tick, with UCS value U0060) +and @samp{'} (apostrophe, also known as single-quote, with UCS value +U0027), where the nested begin and end quotes within the string are balanced. The value of a string token is the text, with one level of quotes stripped off. Thus -- cgit v1.2.1