GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 551650
Semicolons (or dash) should be used instead of commas for splitting items, time and size
Last modified: 2009-02-10 23:39:56 UTC
Please describe the problem: Currently, commas are being used for separating items, time and size, I think that semicolons (;) should be used instead because commas (,) are also being used for decimal numbers in time and size Steps to reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Does this happen every time? Other information:
Created attachment 118424 [details] banshee-comas.png This shows the current behavior
Created attachment 118425 [details] [review] banshee-1.0.0-append.patch This patch changes "," with "-", but can be easily modified for using ";"
I'm not a developer, but I would think that "; " would make more sense. That may depend on languages and their grammar though, I'm not sure.
At least in spanish grammar I think that would be better ";" also :-)
A hyphen (-) is incorrect. An em dash (—) might be better. That said, why not use a bit more space instead of debatable characters? Whitespace separation could work quite well I think.
Well, I dubt between bigger spaces or ";", but both look ok to me :-) At least in spanish, seems that it could be used as said in http://buscon.rae.es/dpdI/SrvltGUIBusDPD?lema=punto%20y%20coma in "a)" (sorry, it is only in spanish :-( ) In french seems that it could be also used for this: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-virgule#En_fran.C3.A7ais but I don't speak french too well, maybe translation teams could be added to CC list for considering if ";" usage would be ok
Hrm, I do like how it looks w/ the em dash. Is there any good argument for making the separator a translated string?
(In reply to comment #7) > Hrm, I do like how it looks w/ the em dash. Is there any good argument for > making the separator a translated string? No. There is no reason. Just make it a fixed string.
Created attachment 128407 [details] [review] Use an em-dash (U+2014) for the separator
(In reply to comment #9) > Created an attachment (id=128407) [edit] > Use an em-dash (U+2014) for the separator <warning> Typographical nitpicking! <warning> The Elements of Typographic Style recommends the more concise spaced en dash – like so – see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Em_dash#En_dash_versus_em_dash for more information. So... U+2013 should be used instead!
Created attachment 128410 [details] [review] Use an en-dash (U+2013) for the separator
I committed a modified version, using the ndash.
Looks quite good; thanks for getting this in!