Re: Quotation marks: Using =?UTF-8?B?4oCc4oCd?= instead of ""
- From: Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk>
- To: Pat Suwalski <pat suwalski net>
- Cc: Christian Neumair <cneumair gnome org>, desktop-devel-list <desktop-devel-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Quotation marks: Using “” instead of ""
- Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 16:52:23 +0100
> They also tend to fail horribly when pasting into a non-Unicode
> terminal, which is still often the case over SSH. Probably not a huge
> desktop consideration, though. Every distribution I know of uses Unicode
> by default on the local terminal at this point.
Doesn't matter for translations but the C locale is ASCII (and sorting is
only defined for ASCII) so the base strings that get translated should
always be ASCII themselves.
What people do with French/German/English/US/.. quoting rules after that
is a different matter but surely belongs to the language team.
Alan
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