On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 09:51 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: > On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org> wrote: > > > > Is this really the right thing to do. Even the Microsoft page > > uses the rather wishy-washy "Consider using the ratio symbol", > > as if they're not quite sure this is a good idea. It does look > > nicer, but it's semantically wrong. A time is not a ratio. How > > does Orca read it? > > I don't really have an answer to the philosophical question of what a > 'ratio' really is and whether > 9-colon-49 is any more correct than 9-ratio-49 when it comes to > representing time. > > But I can say that Orca reads the one like the other: "nine fortynine". Perhaps more importantly, the ratio character behaves differently in RtL locales than the colon character does. See: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2012/02/09/10265712.aspx If I write 09:53 with a colon, it’ll remain left-to-right in RtL locales because the colon is a Unicode number separator. If I write 09∶53 with a ratio character, it’ll appear as 53∶09 in RtL locales. (Tested in gedit.) Is this the behaviour we want? Philip
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