Re: on usage of non-ascii symbols

2007-02-27 Thread Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
On 2/27/07, Simos Xenitellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 00:39 +0800, Abel Cheung wrote: > > I can recall in some older discussion that current GNOME 'policy' is > > "source code == en_US". I used to think "source code == C (locale)" > > I think that should be "source code

Re: on usage of non-ascii symbols

2007-02-27 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 00:39 +0800, Abel Cheung wrote: > On 2/27/07, Karl Eichwalder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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 fo

Re: on usage of non-ascii symbols

2007-02-27 Thread Abel Cheung
On 2/27/07, Karl Eichwalder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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

Re: on usage of non-ascii symbols

2007-02-27 Thread Karl Eichwalder
"Leonardo Fontenelle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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) thi

Re: on usage of non-ascii symbols

2007-02-27 Thread Christopher Fynn
The ellipses at least is in virtually every Latin font. Since the glyph for this character is in the "Windows ANSI" character set, the "Macintosh Roman" character set and the old "Adobe Standard Encoding" it is safe to use even with old fonts that have < 256 glyphs, provided the font is correc

Re: on usage of non-ascii symbols

2007-02-27 Thread Wouter Bolsterlee
2007-02-27 klockan 02:58 skrev Leonardo Fontenelle: > Recently I talked to the rest of the pt_BR l10n team and we decided not to > use this "nice and hard" unicode chars. Other l10n teams may adopt different policies. For instance, the nl_NL team uses ‘fancy quotes’ instead of 'straight quotes'.

Re: on usage of non-ascii symbols

2007-02-26 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 09:07 +0700, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote: > On 2/27/07, Leonardo Fontenelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 charac

Re: on usage of non-ascii symbols

2007-02-26 Thread Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
On 2/27/07, Leonardo Fontenelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 peo

Re: on usage of non-ascii symbols

2007-02-26 Thread Leonardo Fontenelle
Sorry, forgot to identify myself. Leonardo Fontenelle (leonardof) 2007/2/26, Leonardo Fontenelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 s

Re: on usage of non-ascii symbols

2007-02-26 Thread Leonardo Fontenelle
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 agre

Re: on usage of non-ascii symbols

2007-02-26 Thread Stéphane Raimbault
2007/2/21, Wouter Bolsterlee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2007-02-19 klockan 09:21 skrev Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy: > > I found glade3 is using three-dot symbols "…" instead of thee dots > > "...". If I recall correctly, we're all in favor of ascii symbols. Is > > it okay using non-ascii symbols? > > I genera

Re: on usage of non-ascii symbols

2007-02-25 Thread Danilo Šegan
On Wednesday at 15:36, Wouter Bolsterlee wrote: > 2007-02-19 klockan 09:21 skrev Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy: >> I found glade3 is using three-dot symbols "…" instead of thee dots >> "...". If I recall correctly, we're all in favor of ascii symbols. Is >> it okay using non-ascii symbols? > > I generally

Re: on usage of non-ascii symbols

2007-02-21 Thread Wouter Bolsterlee
2007-02-19 klockan 09:21 skrev Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy: > I found glade3 is using three-dot symbols "…" instead of thee dots > "...". If I recall correctly, we're all in favor of ascii symbols. Is > it okay using non-ascii symbols? I generally consider input to be in UTF-8, not ASCII. Gnome is fully

on usage of non-ascii symbols

2007-02-19 Thread Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
Hi, I found glade3 is using three-dot symbols "…" instead of thee dots "...". If I recall correctly, we're all in favor of ascii symbols. Is it okay using non-ascii symbols? -- Duy ___ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/ma