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Hi Yury, *,

On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Yury Tarasievich
<yury.tarasievich@gmail.com> wrote:

Well, as Adolfo tells us, it's "bah" to Windows users". However, Linux's
en_US keymap (which I'm using right now) also does not have any of mentioned
glyphs on the compose key.

Compose sequences should be the same regardless of keybloard layout,
you probably mean they're not accessible using group-switch key
(altGr) directly. (they are indeed not in the crippled plain en-US
layout, but are in the international layout)
But compose sequences are also available:
compose, apostroph, less/greater (or compose, less/greater, apostroph,
order usually doesn't matter with compose sequences)

i.e.
compose, ', > → ’
compose, ', < → ‘

same with the double quotation marks: compose, ", <less/greater>
compose, ", > → ”
compose, ", < → “

compose, >, > and compose << will give » and «

But with a keyboard-layout that actually makes use of the different
groups, you can also enter it with <altGr>[+<shift>]+<whateverkey>,
shift usually switching between the single or double variants ( ›‹ vs
»« and “” vs ‘’ for example)

I'm heavily using several fancy glyphs input add-ons in LO itself, and I
tell you, it's not all fun.

I agree this will be annoying, because at the very least, the localizers
will have to re-approve a lot of their old translations when these
changes land. At least in the case of "don't" though, maybe this change
could be automated, if we ask Andras or Christian nicely? :)

Well, the only thing that can be done is to apply the old strings
despite the typographic changes, i.e. do a run that maps all
typographic quotes back to simple variants and then try to find an old
translation for that string and apply it.
In other words: Change the English string to typographic quotes, and
take the translations from the non-typographic variant.

So translators wouldn't need to retranslate, but also wouldn't see
what strings did change.

ciao
Christian

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