2014-11-29 15:05 GMT-06:00 Mihkel Tõnnov said > Typographically speaking, ’ *is* the correct character. The use of > so-called straight or typewriter apostrophes (and quotes) in computing is > basically restricting oneself to a limitation that is no longer justified > in Unicode-age. So in my view, the changing should ultimately go the other > way: ' → ’ (or ‘ where needed), and " → “”.
+1. I am actually planning to update the rest of strings in LibreOffice to use the correct characters, but I guessed I had already annoyed the other translators too much for this version, so that would be in 4.5. In case you guys didn’t know, Apple [1], Microsoft [2] and GNOME [3] are all recommending the use of typographical apostrophes and quotation marks, among other characters that have been historically replaced with ASCII imitations, such as the multiplication sign (×) being incorrectly written with a Latin lowercase X, or three periods (...) standing for the ellipsis (…). Adolfo -- [1]: https://help.apple.com/asg/mac/2013/#apsg1f285cbc [1.1]: https://developer.apple.com/library/Mac/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/TerminologyWording.html [2]: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/jj553415.aspx [3]: https://developer.gnome.org/hig/stable/typography.html.en -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: l10n+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/l10n/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
