On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 01:24 +0200, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: > On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Alexander Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2008/6/14 Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Note; I am all for the US locale using pretty quotes. I'm just strongly > >> opposed to doing it against the specifications and praying it works out. > >> Particularly when its probably a perl one liner to generate en_US.utf-8 > >> locale files. > > Wrong. "Pretty quotes" cannot be distinguished from straight quotes > > without language context. Consider some code that, e.g., generates XML > > output and requires straight quotes. Such a script would break that. > > (We see it already with Wordpress butchering people's pasted code.) > > Not that it has anything to do with GNOME but putting structural > markup (XML code) into translatable strings should seriously be > considered a bug. One mistranslation could easily make the application > unusable.
We make extensive use of XML markup in the strings in gnome-doc-utils. While I agree this is less than ideal, it's currently the only way we can do the things we do. If an en_US locale automatically changed all the quotes, gnome-doc-utils would break pretty badly. -- Shaun _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
