On 11/30/2014 11:23 AM, Rimas Kudelis wrote:
2014.11.30 07:38, Yury Tarasievich rašė:
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And if you use Windows and want to make inputting these characters even
more convenient, you can always customize your keyboard layout adding
missing typographical symbols to the AltGr (or any other)
On 11/30/2014 12:07 PM, Yury Tarasievich wrote:
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What's strictly incorrect in straight
apostrophe, anyway?
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Anyway, here's an idea for you guys about to
suffer from this: diff the en_US source before
and after apostrophe nice-fication, then create
a program which looks at the
On 11/30/2014 02:33 PM, Jesper Hertel wrote:
Just because you do not like an idea or are
afraid of its consequences there is no reason to
shoot it down with sarcasm or other violent
methods. That is never helpful.
Oh dear. What to do then, if one doesn't like
the idea and does NOT in fact
I like Oliver's idea. That way, en-US can change its caps, commas, typos,
formatted vs non-formatted typography on a daily basis to their heart's content
without kicking the rest of the planet into the neolithic, l10n-wise.
If I may point out the commercial angle on this - I charge $35 an hour
On 11/30/2014 05:13 AM, Adolfo Jayme Barrientos
wrote:
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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
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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)
