quotearg: do not use grave accent for left quote

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 Important notes
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+Date        Modules         Changes
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+2011-12-20  quotearg        In the C locale, the function will no longer use
+                            the grave accent character to begin a quoted
+                            string (`like this').  It will use apostrophes
+                            'like these' or, in Unicode locales, single quotes
+                            ‘like these’.  You may want to adjust any error
+                            messages that hard code the quoting characters.
+
 2010-09-04  gnulib-tool     The option '--import' is no longer cumulative; it
                             now expects the complete list of modules and other
                             options on the command line. If you want to