On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Philip Withnall <phi...@tecnocode.co.uk>wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 09:51 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Shaun McCance <sha...@gnome.org> wrote: > > > > > > Is this really the right thing to do. Even the Microsoft page > > > uses the rather wishy-washy "Consider using the ratio symbol", > > > as if they're not quite sure this is a good idea. It does look > > > nicer, but it's semantically wrong. A time is not a ratio. How > > > does Orca read it? > > > > I don't really have an answer to the philosophical question of what a > > 'ratio' really is and whether > > 9-colon-49 is any more correct than 9-ratio-49 when it comes to > > representing time. > > > > But I can say that Orca reads the one like the other: "nine fortynine". > > Perhaps more importantly, the ratio character behaves differently in RtL > locales than the colon character does. See: > http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2012/02/09/10265712.aspx > > If I write 09:53 with a colon, it’ll remain left-to-right in RtL locales > because the colon is a Unicode number separator. If I write 09∶53 with a > ratio character, it’ll appear as 53∶09 in RtL locales. (Tested in > gedit.) > > Is this the behaviour we want? > Is that a rhetorical question? I think you should comment on the bug. Meg > > Philip > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list >
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