Re: Unicode typography in translations

Sgrìobh Piotr Drąg na leanas 15/11/2016 aig 12:33: > 2016-11-15 13:14 GMT+01:00 : >> I am talking about recent Ubuntu and Mint. >> > > I'm really surprised. I believe they are using UTF-8 like everything > else in 2016. I can't find any information about it. Could you please >

Re: Unicode typography in translations

On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 8:26 PM, Rafael Fontenelle wrote: > > 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

Re: Unicode typography in translations

2016-11-16 11:10 GMT-02:00 Ask Hjorth Larsen : > > A simple conformity check: > > gtgrep -cn --msgstr '\.\.\.' filename.po > > I had a bit of a battle to get the regex escapes right in bash, but > this should weed out most false positives: > > gtgrep -cn --msgstr '(? >

Re: Unicode typography in translations

2016-11-16 13:43 GMT+01:00 Rafael Fontenelle : > > 2016-11-15 10:21 GMT-02:00 Ask Hjorth Larsen : >> >> Hi Rafael >> >> 2016-11-15 2:26 GMT+01:00 Rafael Fontenelle : >> >> > It would be nice to have a script with regexp that could

Re: Unicode typography in translations

2016-11-15 10:21 GMT-02:00 Ask Hjorth Larsen : > Hi Rafael > > 2016-11-15 2:26 GMT+01:00 Rafael Fontenelle : > > > 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

Re: Unicode typography in translations

2016-11-15 13:14 GMT+01:00 : > I am talking about recent Ubuntu and Mint. > I'm really surprised. I believe they are using UTF-8 like everything else in 2016. I can't find any information about it. Could you please elaborate on the issue? Best regards, -- Piotr Drąg

Re: Unicode typography in translations

2016-11-15 2:26 GMT+01:00 Rafael Fontenelle : > 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 >

Re: Unicode typography in translations

Hi Rafael 2016-11-15 2:26 GMT+01:00 Rafael Fontenelle : > 2016-11-14 12:31 GMT-02:00 Piotr Drąg : >> >> Hello translators, >> >> You might have noticed a lot of changes in master branches regarding >> the use of Unicode typography. GNOME HIG has

Re: Unicode typography in translations

I am talking about recent Ubuntu and Mint. Best regards Keld On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 11:18:14AM +0100, Piotr Dr??g wrote: > 2016-11-15 7:21 GMT+01:00 : > > There are still systems that run in 8-bit. > > Will text downgrade nicely if non-8-bit typography is being used in the >

Re: Unicode typography in translations

2016-11-15 7:21 GMT+01:00 : > There are still systems that run in 8-bit. > Will text downgrade nicely if non-8-bit typography is being used in the > translations? > I honestly don't know. What are those systems? Do they run modern GNOME? Best regards, -- Piotr Drąg

Re: Unicode typography in translations

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 : > > > Hello

Re: Unicode typography in translations

2016-11-14 12:31 GMT-02:00 Piotr Drąg : > 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

Re: Unicode typography in translations

Thanks for checking! The only use case I know about is one of our more stubborn translators, but he is not active in GNOME anyway... I guess all relevant distributions use utf8 at least for western languages. Best regards Ask El 14 nov. 2016 19:22, "Piotr Drąg" escribió:

Re: Unicode typography in translations

Hi Thanks for all the useful info. I am very much in favour of using unicode as much as possible. But what happens if someone uses a different locale encoding? For example Danish is typically used with UTF8 (LANGUAGE=da_DK.UTF-8), but can also be used with ISO-8859-1. ISO-8859-1 does not have

Re: Unicode typography in translations

On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 3:31 PM, Piotr Drąg wrote: > Hello translators, Hey, > As a final note, I don't believe there are any technical reasons to > avoid Unicode these days, … including for terminal output. There's no reason to refrain from making this look nice as well.

Unicode typography in translations

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