On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Matthias Julius wrote:
>> Since I currently check all translatable texts I found that sometimes
>> quotes are single and sometimes double. E.g. "isn't" is sometimes simply
>> "isn't" and sometimes "isn''t".
>>
>> Which is the correct way?
>
> The correct way will be to escape single quotes with another one (''),
> always.
>
> In the near future all translations will be fed through
> MessageFormat.format(), so they all get the same treatment.
>
> Also, I want to change all those don'ts and won'ts to "proper" English.
> This doesn't change the meaning of the string, so all the translations
> (hopefully) just need to be unfuzzied.
>
> There are a couple of other minor issues I came across that will get
> fixed on the way.
I would like to delay all these issues until Launchpad has a proper fuzzy
string handling (except these were texts are auto-fixed).
> For translators it is probably best to take a break (and go mapping or
> so) and wait for things to calm down. I guess Dirk should call a String
> Freeze at some point.
Already announced for some time: 20.04.2010.
Ciao
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