[bug #34530] make (ab)uses the ASCII grave accent (0x60) as a left single quotation mark

[Paul D. Smith]

Follow-up Comment #7, bug #34530 (project make):

After some discussion recently by the GNU maintainers, the coding standards
have been modified:

http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Quote-Characters.html


In the C locale, the output of GNU programs should stick to plain ASCII for
quotation characters in messages to users: preferably 0x22 (‘"’) or 0x27
(‘'’) for both opening and closing quotes. Although GNU programs
traditionally used 0x60 (‘`’) for opening and 0x27 (‘'’) for closing
quotes, nowadays quotes ‘`like this'’ are typically rendered
asymmetrically, so quoting ‘"like this"’ or ‘'like this'’ typically
looks better. 


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