Hi! On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 9:51 AM Claude Paroz <cla...@2xlibre.net> wrote:
> Le 11.01.19 à 01:37, Emmanuele Bassi via gnome-i18n a écrit : > > It's not "I" (the uppercase letter i) and "O" (the uppercase letter o), > but: > > > > - for the "on" state: MEDIUM VERTICAL BAR (U+2759) ❙ > > - for the "off" state: WHITE CIRCLE (U+25CB) ○ > I see. Though I still don't see the semantic. I thought ○ was the "on" switch actually (it looks "open" to me, unlike ❙which looks "closed"). Does it come from some specific field where these symbols are used like this? Maybe in electronics (most likely place to have switches)? > > These two symbols were also the recommended translation for "ON" and > > "OFF" in the source code: > > Then why not provide the ❙ and ○ characters for translation? > That looks like a good idea to me. :-) Jehan > Claude > -- > www.2xlibre.net > _______________________________________________ > gnome-i18n mailing list > gnome-i18n@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n > -- ZeMarmot open animation film http://film.zemarmot.net Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/ZeMarmot/ Patreon: https://patreon.com/zemarmot Tipeee: https://www.tipeee.com/zemarmot
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