Re: [mb-style] Unicode objections

2011-02-03 Thread Alex Mauer
On 02/03/2011 11:02 AM, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: > Since these are MB guides, and since MB guides don't say something like > "follow whatever Wikipedia says", I think we should clearly give our rules. I don’t think we have any rules about this, and I don’t think we should have. A complete desc

Re: [mb-style] Unicode objections

2011-02-03 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/2/3 Alex Mauer > On 02/03/2011 09:58 AM, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: > > > > Frankly, I don't know what the correct apostrophe or quote look like, so > > that I am completely unable to find them in a Unicode character table > (even > > if I had the patience to browse such a table looking for

Re: [mb-style] Unicode objections

2011-02-03 Thread Paul C. Bryan
On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 21:17 -0800, abarnert wrote: > > abarnert wrote: > > ... the style guideline should explicitly mention that all of these > > characters should be used as appropriate for entering data (without trying > > to go into when it's appropriate--maybe a link to > > http://en.wikiped

Re: [mb-style] Unicode objections

2011-02-03 Thread Alex Mauer
On 02/03/2011 09:58 AM, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: > > Frankly, I don't know what the correct apostrophe or quote look like, so > that I am completely unable to find them in a Unicode character table (even > if I had the patience to browse such a table looking for them). Just as I > don't know the

Re: [mb-style] Unicode objections

2011-02-03 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/2/3 Nikki > abarnert wrote: > > And then there would be a table, looking sort of like the one below > > (assuming you can see Unicode and also read mail in a monospaced font), > > including the characters currently in the plugin, plus the ones in my > last > > message in this thread. (New ch

Re: [mb-style] Unicode objections

2011-02-03 Thread jacobbrett
Nikki-3 wrote: > > abarnert wrote: > > > >> And then there would be a table, looking sort of like the one below >> (assuming you can see Unicode and also read mail in a monospaced font), >> including the characters currently in the plugin, plus the ones in my >> last >> message in this thread

Re: [mb-style] RFV-317: Untitled Track Style update

2011-02-03 Thread Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:02 PM, jacobbrett wrote: > > > Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren wrote: > > > > As no opposition has been made after the small amendments, I'm moving > this > > to RFV. If the lack of opposition was caused by people forgetting about > > this, now is your chance to say how terribl

Re: [mb-style] Unicode objections

2011-02-03 Thread jacobbrett
Nikki-3 wrote: > > abarnert wrote: > > > >> And then there would be a table, looking sort of like the one below >> (assuming you can see Unicode and also read mail in a monospaced font), >> including the characters currently in the plugin, plus the ones in my >> last >> message in this thread

Re: [mb-style] RFV-317: Untitled Track Style update

2011-02-03 Thread jacobbrett
Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren wrote: > > As no opposition has been made after the small amendments, I'm moving this > to RFV. If the lack of opposition was caused by people forgetting about > this, now is your chance to say how terrible it is :) > > This will expire on Feb 6 at 8:00 AM (CET). > >

Re: [mb-style] Unicode objections

2011-02-03 Thread Nikki
abarnert wrote: > I'm surprised that there were no comments on this. The current guideline is > effectively one sentence: "Use of basic ASCII punctuation characters such as > ' and " is allowed, but typographically-correct punctuation is preferred." I > believe this is ambiguous with respect to hy