Hello translators, You might have noticed a lot of changes in master branches regarding the use of Unicode typography. GNOME HIG has recommendations for English:
https://developer.gnome.org/hig/stable/typography.html I have been submitting patches for implementing these recommendations in the original strings: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=772263 This is a great opportunity to improve our translations! For example, I have been using ASCII typography (characters you can input with your keyboard: " ", ..., - etc.) in Polish translations for years. This is actually incorrect, and for some time now I use proper Unicode characters that the language's rules dictate: „ ”, …, — etc. It is slightly more work for me, sure, but as HIG puts it, it drastically improves the impression given by your applications. I believe some copy and pasting is worth the effort. Here is some info on other ways to input Unicode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_input#In_X11_.28Linux_and_other_Unix_variants.29 Naturally, every language has different typography rules. I encourage you to look into your language's and consider the change. As a final note, I don't believe there are any technical reasons to avoid Unicode these days, so you shouldn't worry about that. If an app crashes because of UTF-8, then it is a bug that needs to be reported and fixed. Best regards, -- Piotr Drąg https://piotrdrag.fedorapeople.org _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
