Hi There are still systems that run in 8-bit. Will text downgrade nicely if non-8-bit typography is being used in the translations?
best regards keld On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 11:26:24PM -0200, Rafael Fontenelle wrote: > 2016-11-14 12:31 GMT-02:00 Piotr Dr??g <[email protected]>: > > > 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 Dr??g > > https://piotrdrag.fedorapeople.org > > _______________________________________________ > > gnome-i18n mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n > > > > > It would be nice to have a script with regexp that could compare msgstr and > msgid in a PO file, and report strings that are not in compliance with > GNOME's HIG typography. I don't have such scripting skill, but if someone > has it, please consider do it. > > Regards, > Rafael Fontenelle > _______________________________________________ > gnome-i18n mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
