diff -urN coreutils-8.16-orig/lib/quotearg.c coreutils-8.16/lib/quotearg.c
--- coreutils-8.16-orig/lib/quotearg.c	2012-03-09 16:31:00 +0900
+++ coreutils-8.16/lib/quotearg.c	2012-03-30 23:29:16 +0900
@@ -197,6 +197,7 @@
 
   if (translation != msgid)
     return translation;
+  return (s == clocale_quoting_style ? "\"" : "'");
 
   /* For UTF-8 and GB-18030, use single quotes U+2018 and U+2019.
      Here is a list of other locales that include U+2018 and U+2019:
