On 23 September 2014 13:54, Florian Schmidt <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello together!
>
> On an IRC talk i saw a link to our coding convention [1] with the hint,
> that
> we use tabs for indentings, so far so good. Now i was wondering, why our
> en.json language file (the only one) uses whitespaces, instead of tabs, and
> if there was a special reason for this? If not, can we change these to
> tabs?
>
> Background: My favourite editor doesn’t show any difference between tabs
> and
> whitespaces (sure, more a setting or a „problem“ of the editor), so i had
> sometimes the problem, that i forget, that there are whitespaces, instead
> of
> tabs, which ends in a new patchset for a change :) All our files, including
> our language files (excluding en.json) uses tabs instead of whitespaces.
> Now
> i suggest to be consistent in en.json, too (if there is no special reason
> for it don’t do it) :) Opinions?
>
> [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile_web/Coding_conventions


​The conversion script to create the JSON files done using an MW function
that output spaces rather than tabs; we fixed this after it was done, but
it was too late. All non-en.json i18n files were re-exported from
TranslateWiki in correct (tabs) format, but fixing en.json in each of
hundreds of repos manually to convert from spaces to tabs wasn't done.

J.
-- 
James D. Forrester
Product Manager, Editing
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

[email protected] | @jdforrester
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