2016-11-14 12:31 GMT-02:00 Piotr Drąg <piotrd...@gmail.com>: > Hello translators, > > You might have noticed a lot of changes in master branches regarding > the use of Unicode typography. GNOME HIG has recommendations for > English: > > https://developer.gnome.org/hig/stable/typography.html > > I have been submitting patches for implementing these recommendations > in the original strings: > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=772263 > > This is a great opportunity to improve our translations! For example, > I have been using ASCII typography (characters you can input with your > keyboard: " ", ..., - etc.) in Polish translations for years. This is > actually incorrect, and for some time now I use proper Unicode > characters that the language's rules dictate: „ ”, …, — etc. > > It is slightly more work for me, sure, but as HIG puts it, it > drastically improves the impression given by your applications. I > believe some copy and pasting is worth the effort. Here is some info > on other ways to input Unicode: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_input#In_X11_.28Linux_ > and_other_Unix_variants.29 > > Naturally, every language has different typography rules. I encourage > you to look into your language's and consider the change. > > As a final note, I don't believe there are any technical reasons to > avoid Unicode these days, so you shouldn't worry about that. If an app > crashes because of UTF-8, then it is a bug that needs to be reported > and fixed. > > Best regards, > > -- > Piotr Drąg > https://piotrdrag.fedorapeople.org > _______________________________________________ > gnome-i18n mailing list > gnome-i18n@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n >
It would be nice to have a script with regexp that could compare msgstr and msgid in a PO file, and report strings that are not in compliance with GNOME's HIG typography. I don't have such scripting skill, but if someone has it, please consider do it. Regards, Rafael Fontenelle
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