On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:53, Piotr Szotkowski <chast...@chastell.net> wrote: > Yeah, me again. Still most grateful fot MusicBrainz. :) > > While I was on a recent Picard-powered metadata-cleanup spree on my > music I noticed http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Style/Miscellaneous saying > that ‘typographically-correct punctuation is preferred’, so I started > updating MB with my local fixes to punctuation (such as replacing > U+0027 APOSTROPHE with U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK). > > Is this welcome or just a noise to the MB database? > > If it’s welcome, how far should it be taken? Replacing U+0027 > with U+2019 (where appropriate) seems to fit the spirit of > the guide, but what about replacing U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS with > U+2010 HYPHEN, such as in renaming Ska-P to Ska‐P and New > York Ska-Jazzi Ensemble to New York Ska‐Jazz Ensemble?
Personally, I don't think there's any utility in replacing characters which could be done with a script. Only if there's some kind of judgement call involved does it really make any sense. Cleaning up only some releases will just leave things in a seemingly inconsistent state, so I'd really prefer if any changes of this nature were made database-wide if they're going to be made at all. -- Philip Jägenstedt _______________________________________________ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
