Re: on usage of non-ascii symbols
- From: Karl Eichwalder <ke suse de>
- To: "Leonardo Fontenelle" <leo fontenelle gmail com>
- Cc: Danilo Šegan <danilo gnome org>, gnome-i18n gnome org
- Subject: Re: on usage of non-ascii symbols
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:53:17 +0100
"Leonardo Fontenelle" <leo fontenelle gmail com> writes:
> Epiphany uses real ellipsis like this, and curly double quotation
> marks (in opposition to the common, "vertical" one). Unicode gives us
> a lot of unambiguous characters for situations like that, and many
> people (ex. web standards people) think you should use them as often
> as possible. I kind of agree with that, too, but as you said they are
> hard to enter and most people don't like them that much.
You'd better avoid such eye-candy stuff in source code. Instead do
proper English translations and add en_US and en_GB files.
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Karl Eichwalder R&D / Documentation
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