Re: Single or double quotation marks + Typography
Hannie Dumoleyn <[email protected]>
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I will comment between the lines: On 01/08/2018 01:00 PM, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: > On 27 December 2017 at 10:45, Hannie Dumoleyn > <[email protected]> wrote: >> While translating, I encountered many fuzzy strings where only quotation >> marks have changed. Example: >> What does "“super user"” mean? >> The user'’s privileges >> type ‘<cmd>rhythmbox</cmd>’ >> >> I have read the guidelines [1] and [2], and found them very interesting. >> >> The question is: is there a difference between single and double quotation >> marks? In my language there is no difference between the two, but it is >> recommended to use either single or double, not both in one document. > The first case is a quotation mark to reference a phrase Good. So this means that, for quotation marks, we use “ U+201C and ” U+201D. (Unicode instead of ASCII). > and the > second case there is an apostrophe to show ownership. In the case of the genitive we use an apostroph, U+2019 (Not ASCII) > > We do not use single quotation marks (e.g. to quote, reference or emphasise). What you say here is that my third example should be “<cmd>rhythmbox</cmd>” and NOT ‘<cmd>etc’. On our wiki [1] I see this: quote The following Unicode character usage is *still under discussion*: /Single quotation marks/ (U+2018 and U+2019, ‘‘’ and ‘’’) rather than straight single quotes (‘'’) or backticks (‘`’). These should be used to quote one- or two-word phrases, rather than extended blocks of text (for which double quotation marks should be used). unquote Is this still under discussion (your comment: We do not use single quotation marks)? Personally, I think using single quotation marks is useful as in my third example. I use Right Alt + (). >> I realize that it is quite a job to change all, but maybe it should be >> mentioned in the guidelines which is preferred. For translators it means extra work, because a translation becomes fuzzy as soon as one character changes. I find the following site useful: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html Regards, Hannie >> >> Let me know what you think. >> >> Hannie >> >> [1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/GnomeGoals/UnicodeUsage >> [2] https://developer.gnome.org/hig/stable/typography.html.en >> >> >> _______________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list