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Bug 621639 - [Tracker] Use unicode
[Tracker] Use unicode
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 772263
Product: general
Classification: Other
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Unknown User
Unknown User
Depends on: 63633 592410 592411 593564 595615 596003 608704 610048 611017 611023 619039 651483 689601 699899
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-06-15 13:35 UTC by Bruce Cowan
Modified: 2016-09-30 19:57 UTC
See Also:
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Description Bruce Cowan 2010-06-15 13:35:55 UTC 
Use unicode in strings instead of their ASCII equivalents.

See http://tecnocode.co.uk/2009/10/01/unicode-in-gnome/ for details
Comment 1 Philip Withnall 2010-06-15 16:39:29 UTC 
None of this can happen until bug #63633 is fixed.
Comment 2 Christian Persch 2010-06-15 17:46:18 UTC 
Are you sure? In my programmes (e.g. gnome-terminal, epiphany, gucharmap,...) I happily ignore this and use … and — etc anyway.
Comment 3 Philip Withnall 2010-06-15 19:20:30 UTC 
It can happen and work fine in most cases, but will fail if the user uses a font which doesn't have the requisite characters.
Comment 4 Philip Withnall 2012-11-26 09:03:26 UTC 
GTK+ has now switched to using Unicode ellipses (commit ceb866dfe6be6d88b8f83a3cbdb8a2a688419c82), so I guess other modules can follow suit now.
Comment 5 Philip Withnall 2012-12-04 12:04:16 UTC 
As Matthias suggests[1], we should also use the Unicode ratio character (U+2236, ‘∶’) instead of an ASCII colon for times and other ratios (e.g. aspect ratios).

[1]: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2012-December/msg00015.html
Comment 7 Piotr Drąg 2016-09-30 19:57:26 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 772263 ***