GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 681808
Use double quotes instead ascii quotes
Last modified: 2012-08-14 15:46:41 UTC
We use a lot of ascii quotes when we should probably be using: U+201C LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK \342\200\234 and U+201D RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK \342\200\235
Created attachment 221095 [details] [review] Use double quotes instead of ascii quotes
Review of attachment 221095 [details] [review]: Not the biggest fan of this...it makes the strings impossible to read and translators' life way harder. Maybe we could just use the actual character instead of its UTF-8 bytewise code?
Yeah, it would seem that using “%s” instead of \342\200\234%s\342\200\235 is much easier to translate too. I've asked in #i18n.
<friedel> those octal codes are downright horrible (both in code and translations) ... <friedel> aha: https://live.gnome.org/TranslationProject/DevGuidelines/Don%27t%20use%20anything%20besides%20ASCII%20or%20UTF-8%20in%20messages <friedel> with "recent" in that page, keep in mind how old it is <andre> that's from 2008, so might be outdated (or still correct). <friedel> last change in 2008 <friedel> but that sounds like a blessing of non-ascii characters to me Given this and that using these chars is really the only way to do this readably, and that these chars are so common that they will certainly be in every font, I think it is fine to proceed until we hear otherwise. Updating patch.
Created attachment 221151 [details] [review] Use double quotes instead of ascii quotes
Review of attachment 221151 [details] [review]: This looks good to me now. I think it'd be worthwhile to use double quotes consistently in GNOME, maybe we should start a GNOME Goal for 3.8 about this.
Attachment 221151 [details] pushed as 6b3dd82 - Use double quotes instead of ascii quotes