[mb-style] Re: [Clean up CSG] Capitalization (and, placement)

[Alexander Dupuy]

Lauri Watts wrote:
> The CSG is already terrifying.  I do not see this particular change
> improving that situation, and it doesn't make sense to me, and I do
> understand now that you completely fail to see my point, so I'll just
> let it go.
>
> If you're entire point is that you don't have to use the em-dash
> notation if the works list is complete, then you could have just said
> so.  I still disagree with it, but you've already lost me past caring
> anyway.
>   

I haven't replied until now because Lauri has done such a better job of 
making the exact points that I would have made.  But if she's going to 
let this go, I have to make a brief statement of support for basically 
everything she has said in this thread so far.

I'll also make a further suggestion.  If you decide on a particular 
special Unicode dash that should be used, as long as the CSG doesn't 
require two different kinds, it wouldn't be hard to write some simple 
TaggerScript to replace ASCII hyphen (with spaces on either side) with 
the special dash, making the typographical perfectionists happy, while 
allowing naive clueless newbs to get tags on their MP3s that their 
player will surely be able to display correctly (they don't know the 
difference between dashes and hyphens anyhow, but won't like the empty 
box or question mark their player will display if it doesn't understand 
Unicode - or supports UTF-16 but not UTF-8).

If it's utterly impractical to choose just one (or there's some 
compelling need to do this replacement only for classical or something, 
and there is some utterly compelling argument for putting some special 
Unicode dash in the DB (I haven't seen this argument yet) the only way 
it will fly is if there is a "Classical" guess case mode that fixes 
these up automatically (and, probably, a web site report that flags 
titles that have the wrong Unicode dash - but not hyphen).  Because if 
you're expecting even the few who dare edit per the CSG to get it right 
most or all of the time, you're mistaken.

@alex

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