Here is a request for a small adjustment in five English strings.
Almost all places in LibreOffice, straight apostrophes (', ASCII code 39
decimal) are used in n't endings like don't in the English strings. It
is used 209 places in version 4.4.
But there are five places where the character ’
2014-11-29 22:21 GMT+02:00 Mihkel Tõnnov mihh...@gmail.com:
2014-11-29 22:02 GMT+02:00 Jesper Hertel jesper.her...@gmail.com:
...
But I can find no Preview check box when I try to select Insert - Image
in
the Danish LibreOffice Draw 4.4 beta 1 in Windows 7 SP1 64 bit. I see
the
2014-11-29 15:05 GMT-06:00 Mihkel Tõnnov said
Typographically speaking, ’ *is* the correct character. The use of
so-called straight or typewriter apostrophes (and quotes) in computing is
basically restricting oneself to a limitation that is no longer justified
in Unicode-age. So in my view,
On 11/30/2014 05:13 AM, Adolfo Jayme Barrientos
wrote:
...
In case you guys didn’t know, Apple [1], Microsoft [2] and GNOME [3]
are all recommending the use of typographical apostrophes and
quotation marks, among other characters that have been historically
...
Said recommendations, while
2014-11-29 23:38 GMT-06:00 Yury Tarasievich said:
Said recommendations, while formaly correct, are subverted by the fact that
there are no commonly accessible methods to keyboard-input all those fancy
glyphs.
Wrong.
OS X and Linux distros include punctuation (which is not “fancy” at
all)
