[mb-style] Unicode objections

[jacobbrett]

Nikki-3 wrote:
> 
> abarnert wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>> And then there would be a table, looking sort of like the one below
>> (assuming you can see Unicode and also read mail in a monospaced font),
>> including the characters currently in the plugin, plus the ones in my
>> last
>> message in this thread. (New characters could of course be added to the
>> list
>> through the usual style process.)
>> 
>> +-------------+-------+---------+---------+-------+--------------+
>> |    typographically correct    |        ASCII equivalent        |
>> |  character  | glyph | Unicode | Unicode | glyph |  character   |
>> +-------------+-------+---------+---------+-------+--------------+
>> | punctuation |   ’   | U+2019  | U+0027  |   '   |  apostrophe  |
>> | apostrophe  |       |         |         |       |              |
>> +-------------+-------+---------+---------+-------+--------------+
>> |   hyphen    |   ‐   | U+2010  | U+002D  |   -   | hyphen-minus |
>> +-------------+-------+---------+---------+-------+--------------+
> 
> I don't like that idea though. It seems to be aimed at geeks rather than 
> the average user, and I don't really see the point in having a 
> "standard" ASCII equivalent. People will just use whatever ASCII 
> character makes sense to them anyway when entering stuff (which we would 
> later change to the typographically correct versions) and outside of the 
> MusicBrainz database, people can turn them back to ASCII in whatever way 
> they wish.
> 
> 
> Nikki
> 
Exactly. I think we should aim to be as correct with our punctuation as
possible (for semantic and data quality reasons) and allow external parties
to convert back to ASCII, if they so choose (which should be trivial; ASCII
-> Unicode is not, though).

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