https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157170
--- Comment #21 from Jack <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Stéphane Guillou (stragu) from comment #20) > (In reply to sophie from comment #18) > > I would vote for the first one because guillemets is not an English word so > > it would become easier in our francophone world but not for other > > translators. > > Happy to stick to the original for least surprise, but "guillemets" seems to > be a term accepted, if not dominant, in English: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillemet > > See: > https://books.google.com/ngrams/ > graph?content=guillemet_INF%2Cangle+quote_INF&year_start=1900&year_end=2019&c > orpus=en-2019&smoothing=3 > > (In reply to Jack from comment #19) > > In all cases, these < and > on a keyboard are symbols meaning "less than" or > > "greater than" and in no case inverted commas. If they are used for inverted > > commas, that's not their basic role! > > > > let's call a spade a spade ! > > Agreed, and looking more into I realise that there actually is a distinction > between three groups of characters here: angle brackets, > less-than/greater-than, and single guillemets. A good illustration here: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracket#Shape > You are right that our autocorrect rule concerns the middle one and we > should be explicite about it. > In Unicode: > - U+003C < LESS-THAN SIGN (<, <) > - U+003E > GREATER-THAN SIGN (>, >) > > So my suggested source string is now: > > "Replace double less- or greater-than signs (<< and >>) with angle quotes (« > and »)" > > Longer but clearer. Yes, I think it's much better that way (in English). Personally, my mother tongue is French (from Switzerland), hence my initial question, as the current French translation is almost incomprehensible. What exactly would you suggest for the French 'version'? As far as I'm concerned, it's not a sign but a character or a symbol, at least in correct French! > Like Julien, I recommend avoiding having "+" in there as I think it could > confuse further. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
