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    All quoted strings now use apostrophe instead of grave accent · b9c48d00
    Mohammad Akhlaghi authored
    Until now, Gnuastro's quoted strings used a grave accent (`) for opening a
    quote and an apostrophe for closing it, something like `this'. But as noted
    by Rafael Morales, this is not very clear to the eye.
    
    So I had a look at the GNU Coding Standards, and noticed that under the
    section "Quote Characters", it also recommends this style: "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."
    
    With this commit, this has been corrected in all of Gnuastro, both in the
    printed messages and also the comments in the code.
    
    Also, again as suggested by Rafael, to give a unified interface for quoting
    strings, all the double quotations have been removed in the printed
    messages (in the C source they looked like '\"'). They are now also shown
    with an apostrophe.
    b9c48d00
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