[Gimp-developer] the symbol for inch can be ' ?

[Daniel Hornung]

On Tuesday 18 November 2008, Cristian Secară wrote:
> Somewhere in the po-plug-ins file there is this string:
>
> The unit's symbol if it has one (e.g. \"'\" for inches). The unit's
> abbreviation is used if doesn't have a symbol.
>
> Is this correct ? As far as I know the symbol for inch is ", not '.
>
> Cristi
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Indeed, wikipedia says it's the double prime symbol:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_(symbol)
http://www.isthisthingon.org/unicode/index.php?page=02&subpage=0&glyph=02033

which is different from quotation marks. I don't know if that plays a role 
here though :)

Daniel
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