https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10352
Bartosz Dziewoński <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED CC| |[email protected] Version|1.11.x |1.21-git Resolution|LATER | Summary|Use Unicode quotes and |Use Unicode quotes, |ellipses instead of ASCII |ellipses, dashes, hyphens |quotes and dots |instead of ASCII ones in | |messages --- Comment #7 from Bartosz Dziewoński <[email protected]> 2012-11-13 18:24:12 UTC --- Reopening from LATER and adjusting summary. (In reply to comment #3) > Web typography and monitor resolutions may eventually improve > to the point that this would be nice, but not now. Five years passed, it’s 2012 now. I’m pretty sure this would now be acceptable from the accessibility point of view, and I don’t understand the concerns about inputting difficulties — yes, there are ones (not much changed in this aspect), but why would anyone need to input parts of the interface other than the people creating it?). So, do we want to use correct typography in English language messages (and encourage using it in other languages’ ones)? I think that currently the general Unicode‐compatibility of browsers and OSes is good enough to do this. (The original report also mentioned changes to comments in code, but I think this could be a bad idea — code should be very easily greppable, is still semi‐often displayed in Unicode‐crippled environments like Windows’ cmd.exe, and lacks explicit encoding information, unlike HTML pages.) (I took special care to include several Unicode characters in this comment. Can you spot them all?) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
