5 files changed, 14 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/perl/lib/Nix/Config.pm.in b/perl/lib/Nix/Config.pm.in
index c23e1ae4bee2..3575d99cb671 100644
--- a/perl/lib/Nix/Config.pm.in
+++ b/perl/lib/Nix/Config.pm.in
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ sub readConfig {
         my $config = "$confDir/nix.conf";
         return unless -f $config;
 
-        open CONFIG, "<$config" or die "cannot open '$config'";
+        open CONFIG, "<$config" or die "cannot open ‘$config’";
         while (<CONFIG>) {
             /^\s*([\w\-\.]+)\s*=\s*(.*)$/ or next;
             $config{$1} = $2;
diff --git a/perl/lib/Nix/CopyClosure.pm b/perl/lib/Nix/CopyClosure.pm
index 902ee1a1bc9f..affb3ea524ae 100644
--- a/perl/lib/Nix/CopyClosure.pm
+++ b/perl/lib/Nix/CopyClosure.pm
@@ -35,14 +35,14 @@ sub copyToOpen {
     my $missingSize = 0;
     $missingSize += (queryPathInfo($_, 1))[3] foreach @missing;
 
-    printf STDERR "copying %d missing paths (%.2f MiB) to '$sshHost'...\n",
+    printf STDERR "copying %d missing paths (%.2f MiB) to ‘$sshHost’...\n",
         scalar(@missing), $missingSize / (1024**2);
     return if $dryRun;
 
     # Send the "import paths" command.
     syswrite($to, pack("L<x4", 4)) or die;
     exportPaths(fileno($to), @missing);
-    readInt($from) == 1 or die "remote machine '$sshHost' failed to import closure\n";
+    readInt($from) == 1 or die "remote machine ‘$sshHost’ failed to import closure\n";
 }
 
 
diff --git a/perl/lib/Nix/Manifest.pm b/perl/lib/Nix/Manifest.pm
index 6438398e1766..0da376761201 100644
--- a/perl/lib/Nix/Manifest.pm
+++ b/perl/lib/Nix/Manifest.pm
@@ -60,10 +60,10 @@ sub readManifest_ {
     # Decompress the manifest if necessary.
     if ($manifest =~ /\.bz2$/) {
         open MANIFEST, "$Nix::Config::bzip2 -d < $manifest |"
-            or die "cannot decompress '$manifest': $!";
+            or die "cannot decompress ‘$manifest’: $!";
     } else {
         open MANIFEST, "<$manifest"
-            or die "cannot open '$manifest': $!";
+            or die "cannot open ‘$manifest’: $!";
     }
 
     my $inside = 0;
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ sub parseNARInfo {
         # FIXME: might be useful to support multiple signatures per .narinfo.
 
         if (!defined $sig) {
-            warn "NAR info file '$location' lacks a signature; ignoring\n";
+            warn "NAR info file ‘$location’ lacks a signature; ignoring\n";
             return undef;
         }
         my ($keyName, $sig64) = split ":", $sig;
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ sub parseNARInfo {
 
         my $publicKey = $Nix::Config::binaryCachePublicKeys{$keyName};
         if (!defined $publicKey) {
-            warn "NAR info file '$location' is signed by unknown key '$keyName'; ignoring\n";
+            warn "NAR info file ‘$location’ is signed by unknown key ‘$keyName’; ignoring\n";
             return undef;
         }
 
@@ -306,12 +306,12 @@ sub parseNARInfo {
                 [ map { "$Nix::Config::storeDir/$_" } @refs ]);
         };
         if ($@) {
-            warn "cannot compute fingerprint of '$location'; ignoring\n";
+            warn "cannot compute fingerprint of ‘$location’; ignoring\n";
             return undef;
         }
 
         if (!checkSignature($publicKey, decode_base64($sig64), $fingerprint)) {
-            warn "NAR info file '$location' has an incorrect signature; ignoring\n";
+            warn "NAR info file ‘$location’ has an incorrect signature; ignoring\n";
             return undef;
         }
 
diff --git a/perl/lib/Nix/SSH.pm b/perl/lib/Nix/SSH.pm
index 4b3d84b19383..95393d881450 100644
--- a/perl/lib/Nix/SSH.pm
+++ b/perl/lib/Nix/SSH.pm
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ sub connectToRemoteNix {
 
     $extraFlags ||= "";
 
-    # Start 'nix-store --serve' on the remote host.
+    # Start ‘nix-store --serve’ on the remote host.
     my ($from, $to);
     # FIXME: don't start a shell, start ssh directly.
     my $pid = open2($from, $to, "exec ssh -x -a $sshHost @globalSshOpts @{$sshOpts} nix-store --serve --write $extraFlags");
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ sub connectToRemoteNix {
         syswrite($to, pack("L<x4L<x4", $SERVE_MAGIC_1, $clientVersion)) or die;
         $magic = readInt($from);
     };
-    die "unable to connect to '$sshHost'\n" if $@;
+    die "unable to connect to ‘$sshHost’\n" if $@;
     die "did not get valid handshake from remote host\n" if $magic  != 0x5452eecb;
 
     my $serverVersion = readInt($from);
diff --git a/perl/lib/Nix/Utils.pm b/perl/lib/Nix/Utils.pm
index 44955a70698c..392c45f2fffb 100644
--- a/perl/lib/Nix/Utils.pm
+++ b/perl/lib/Nix/Utils.pm
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ $urlRE = "(?: [a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9\+\-\.]*\:[a-zA-Z0-9\%\/\?\:\@\&\=\+\$\,\-\_\.\!
 
 sub checkURL {
     my ($url) = @_;
-    die "invalid URL '$url'\n" unless $url =~ /^ $urlRE $ /x;
+    die "invalid URL ‘$url’\n" unless $url =~ /^ $urlRE $ /x;
 }
 
 sub uniq {
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ sub uniq {
 
 sub writeFile {
     my ($fn, $s) = @_;
-    open TMP, ">$fn" or die "cannot create file '$fn': $!";
+    open TMP, ">$fn" or die "cannot create file ‘$fn’: $!";
     print TMP "$s" or die;
     close TMP or die;
 }
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ sub writeFile {
 sub readFile {
     local $/ = undef;
     my ($fn) = @_;
-    open TMP, "<$fn" or die "cannot open file '$fn': $!";
+    open TMP, "<$fn" or die "cannot open file ‘$fn’: $!";
     my $s = <TMP>;
     close TMP or die;
     return $s;