[Bug 1808450] Re: Strings with placeholders don’t include quotation marks so they can’t be changed per locale

2020-06-22 Thread Samuele Pedroni
** Changed in: snapd (Ubuntu) Importance: High => Low ** Changed in: snapd Importance: Wishlist => Low -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1808450 Title: Strings with placeholders

[Bug 1808450] Re: Strings with placeholders don’t include quotation marks so they can’t be changed per locale

2019-08-20 Thread John Lenton
strconv.Quote, sorry. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1808450 Title: Strings with placeholders don’t include quotation marks so they can’t be changed per locale To manage

[Bug 1808450] Re: Strings with placeholders don’t include quotation marks so they can’t be changed per locale

2019-08-20 Thread John Lenton
> No need to mansplain. I was answering your previous "Not all languages use English quotation marks." > Better explain to me something I don’t know: why is this the first time a new placeholder “%q” has been needed? It's not the first time a language has a field specifier that's not part of

[Bug 1808450] Re: Strings with placeholders don’t include quotation marks so they can’t be changed per locale

2019-08-20 Thread Gunnar Hjalmarsson
This won't be fixed in Ubuntu only, so what's the point with setting higher importance for Ubuntu compared to upstream? When you find that the developers give something lower priority than yourself, one way - maybe the only way - to move it forward is to start working and, in this case, submit

[Bug 1808450] Re: Strings with placeholders don’t include quotation marks so they can’t be changed per locale

2019-08-20 Thread Adolfo Jayme
No need to mansplain. I’ve been translating software for more than a decade; I know my typography. Better explain to me something I don’t know: why is this the first time a new placeholder “%q” has been needed? It confuses Launchpad (for instance, I can’t save this string

[Bug 1808450] Re: Strings with placeholders don’t include quotation marks so they can’t be changed per locale

2018-12-22 Thread Adolfo Jayme
** Also affects: ubuntu-translations Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: ubuntu-translations Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: ubuntu-translations Importance: Undecided => High -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 1808450] Re: Strings with placeholders don’t include quotation marks so they can’t be changed per locale

2018-12-14 Thread John Lenton
Note we're not using "English" quotes (“”), but rather the ASCII "quotation mark" glyph, which is a compromise. The use of guillemots is recommended but not obligatory in Spanish¹, and I think every language has their preferred quotations, including “foo”, „foo”, «foo», »foo«, ‹foo›, 『foo』, ...

[Bug 1808450] Re: Strings with placeholders don’t include quotation marks so they can’t be changed per locale

2018-12-14 Thread Zygmunt Krynicki
** Also affects: snapd Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: snapd Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: snapd Importance: Undecided => Low -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.