Hi list After a discussion today on IRC with Clytie, we decided to collect some information about ideal display settings for different languages. As an example Clytie pointed out that underlining hyperlinks is a problem in Vietnamese as it obscures some diacritics. There are bound to be more issues like these in many languages.
We have been collecting plural information for many languages on the wiki, and this has been useful (not just for us). Hopefully a wiki page like this will help us (and anyone else that bothers to read it) to make all languages display in an optimal way. This is currently somewhat HTML/CSS centric (with Pootle in mind), but needn't be that way. Currently the following information is collected: * List of fonts in order of preference (http://unifont.org seems to be a possible source of information) * Is font size adjustment necessary - is your script readable at default settings? This might depend on which font is available as good fonts are more readable at smaller sizes than less ideal fonts * Hyperlink decoration - Does underlining hyperlinks cause problems? Overlines? Rather no decoration? * RTL - I posted about this to the list a while ago and included it there so it is available. For complete description and an example (Vietnamese, as supplied by Clytie) see the wiki page: http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/l10n/displaysettings We welcome ideas and contributions. Friedel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Translate-pootle mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/translate-pootle
