[libreoffice-l10n] Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Re: [libreoffice-l10n] n’t → n't

On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Adolfo Jayme Barrientos
<fito@libreoffice.org> wrote:
> 2014-11-29 23:38 GMT-06:00 Yury Tarasievich said:
> > Said recommendations, while formaly correct, are subverted by the fact that
> > there are no commonly accessible methods to keyboard-input all those "fancy"
> > glyphs.
>
> Wrong.
>
> OS X and Linux distros include punctuation (which is not “fancy” at
> all) out-of-the-box in most keyboard layouts—the user does not have to
> do anything weird to get these working. The only OS missing the fun in
> Windows, but bah.
>
> > Program UI isn't a typography showcase.
>
> Of course it is! We’re building an office suite, remember? An office
> suite which has to do with typography a great lot. And even if it
> didn’t, it’s supposed to demostrate a level of polish and leave a
> better, lasting impression on users. They do care about these things,
> I certainly do as well. Even amateurish OS X applications implement
> typographic quotation marks. Recent versions of GNOME core
> applications also do. Windows Store apps are also in the boat. It was
> only a matter of time.

Fair enough, but please invent a process that makes these cosmetical
changes transparent for translators. People don't want to retranslate
or review 4000 strings just because you changed apostrophes in en-US.
Not to mention that many languages are unmaintaned in Pootle,

Thanks,
Andras

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