on., 05.12.2012 kl. 09.56 -0500, skrev Shaun McCance:
On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 17:24 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Philip Withnall phi...@tecnocode.co.uk
wrote:
On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 09:51 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Shaun
On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 13:15 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote:
But if we're going to write guidelines, here's my semi-professinal
opinion:
* Using hyphens instead of dashes for parenthetical text is awful.
Using unspaced hyphens-like this-is downright confusing.
* I'm old and I like unspaced
On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 13:15 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote:
* Unspaced en-dashes are for indicating ranges. We should use those
too, though the hyphen isn't quite as ugly when misused in this case.
Since this one should be fairly uncontroversial, I’ve added it to the
wiki page with the note that
Philip Withnall wrote:
I’ve created https://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/UnicodeUsage which I
think covers everything discussed in this thread so far. Please feel
free to add further suggestions to it, or move things from the
‘discussion’ to the ‘agreed’ list.
Looks good. The only thing I’d like
On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 12:50 +0100, Robin Stocker wrote:
Philip Withnall wrote:
I’ve created https://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/UnicodeUsage which I
think covers everything discussed in this thread so far. Please feel
free to add further suggestions to it, or move things from the
On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 12:50 +0100, Robin Stocker wrote:
Philip Withnall wrote:
I’ve created https://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/UnicodeUsage which I
think covers everything discussed in this thread so far. Please feel
free to add further suggestions to it, or move things from the
On Sat, 2012-12-08 at 10:01 +0100, Stefan Sauer wrote:
On 12/04/2012 01:09 AM, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
I think it's time that we move away from using three periods (...) to
represent the ellipsis and instead use the Unicode character (…).
This style has already been adopted by Microsoft [1]
On 12/04/2012 01:09 AM, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
I think it's time that we move away from using three periods (...) to
represent the ellipsis and instead use the Unicode character (…).
This style has already been adopted by Microsoft [1] and Apple [2].
[1]
On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 17:30 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Matthias Clasen
matthias.cla...@gmail.com wrote:
I'd say its up to the translators of each locale to say what format is
most appropriate for their language. Date and time formats are
translatable
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 5:30 AM, Matthias Clasen
matthias.cla...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Matthias Clasen
matthias.cla...@gmail.com wrote:
I'd say its up to the translators of each locale to say what format is
most appropriate for their language. Date and time formats
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 6:40 AM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy pclo...@gmail.com wrote:
So this change will be in en_US.po, not in .pot file? The reason is
many translators will simply copy the original string down. Even if
one knows about this, it's really hard to know which one is colon,
which is
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Matthias Clasen
matthias.cla...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 6:40 AM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy pclo...@gmail.com
wrote:
So this change will be in en_US.po, not in .pot file? The reason is
many translators will simply copy the original string down. Even
On Wed, 2012-12-05 at 20:32 +0700, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Matthias Clasen
matthias.cla...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 6:40 AM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy pclo...@gmail.com
wrote:
So this change will be in en_US.po, not in .pot file? The reason
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 8:38 PM, Bastien Nocera had...@hadess.net wrote:
Yeah. I remember seeing Bastien or someone complain about comments
about key names in gtk+ being ignored by translators. I would not
count too much on it.
I probably did when all the clutter applications were crashing
On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 17:24 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Philip Withnall phi...@tecnocode.co.uk
wrote:
On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 09:51 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Shaun McCance sha...@gnome.org wrote:
Is this really the
On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 22:01 -0600, Ted Gould wrote:
On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 19:09 -0500, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
I think it's time that we move away from using three periods (...) to
represent the ellipsis and instead use the Unicode character (…).
We've been trying to do this on the Unity
On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 19:09 -0500, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
I think it's time that we move away from using three periods (...) to
represent the ellipsis and instead use the Unicode character (…).
This style has already been adopted by Microsoft [1] and Apple [2].
[1]
On 2012-12-04 09:08, Philip Withnall phi...@tecnocode.co.uk wrote:
On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 22:01 -0600, Ted Gould wrote:
On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 19:09 -0500, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
I think it's time that we move away from using three periods (...) to
represent the ellipsis and instead use the
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 7:09 AM, Jeremy Bicha jbi...@ubuntu.com wrote:
On the other hand, I think it's less clear whether we should change
command line output as the single Unicode ellipsis takes up
significantly less space than three periods in a monospace font.
Please stick with ASCII for
On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 09:40 +, David King wrote:
On 2012-12-04 09:08, Philip Withnall phi...@tecnocode.co.uk wrote:
On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 22:01 -0600, Ted Gould wrote:
On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 19:09 -0500, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
I think it's time that we move away from using three periods
While we are talking about better use of Unicode, I've recently spent
some time improving the time rendering in a few prominent places, by
using the 'ratio' character instead of plain ascii : - some
screenshots of the difference can be seen in bug 689184 [1]. It might
be a good idea to do this
Le lundi 03 décembre 2012 à 19:09 -0500, Jeremy Bicha a écrit :
I think it's time that we move away from using three periods (...) to
represent the ellipsis and instead use the Unicode character (…).
This style has already been adopted by Microsoft [1] and Apple [2].
[1]
On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 06:40 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
While we are talking about better use of Unicode, I've recently spent
some time improving the time rendering in a few prominent places, by
using the 'ratio' character instead of plain ascii : - some
screenshots of the difference can be
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Shaun McCance sha...@gnome.org wrote:
Is this really the right thing to do. Even the Microsoft page
uses the rather wishy-washy Consider using the ratio symbol,
as if they're not quite sure this is a good idea. It does look
nicer, but it's semantically wrong. A
On 4 December 2012 09:21, Shaun McCance sha...@gnome.org wrote:
Is this really the right thing to do. Even the Microsoft page
uses the rather wishy-washy Consider using the ratio symbol,
as if they're not quite sure this is a good idea. It does look
nicer, but it's semantically wrong. A time
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Philip Withnall phi...@tecnocode.co.ukwrote:
On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 09:51 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Shaun McCance sha...@gnome.org wrote:
Is this really the right thing to do. Even the Microsoft page
uses the rather
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Philip Withnall phi...@tecnocode.co.uk wrote:
On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 09:51 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Shaun McCance sha...@gnome.org wrote:
Is this really the right thing to do. Even the Microsoft page
uses the rather
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Matthias Clasen
matthias.cla...@gmail.com wrote:
I'd say its up to the translators of each locale to say what format is
most appropriate for their language. Date and time formats are
translatable for a reason...
and, to finish that thought, therefore the
I think it's time that we move away from using three periods (...) to
represent the ellipsis and instead use the Unicode character (…).
This style has already been adopted by Microsoft [1] and Apple [2].
[1]
On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 19:09 -0500, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
I think it's time that we move away from using three periods (...) to
represent the ellipsis and instead use the Unicode character (…).
We've been trying to do this on the Unity Indicators and I wrote a small
automake fragment to test for
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