[mb-users] Correct typography

[Erik Dalén]

On 12/09/2007, Mika Heiska <kilualmighty at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know about anything else, but I personally dislike ellipsis (and
> the likes), and if I notice one in the database I usually mod it to
> three dots. I don't think there are rules about this stuff (or have I
> just completely missed them) but to me ellipsis are unusable. Even if
> MBz supports them, lot of applications don't and often break when trying
> to load a filename with ellipsis on it.
>
> This is my experience anyway, perhaps I have been unlucky.

I think we should use the typographically correct versions whereever
possible but provide an option in picard to convert them to ", ' and
... ("normal" characters). Just like the only ASCII or only
windows-compatible characters options. It's much easier to convert
from the richer formats to the simple ones than the other way.
Ellipsis might be easy either way, but not quotes, dashes, hyphens and
punctuation.

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Erik Dalén
erik.dalen at socialisterna.org