On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 9:57 AM, siebrand@svn.wikimedia.org wrote:
- Prettification of quotes (by Jon Harald S?\195?\184by)
-'tog-showjumplinks' => 'Enable "jump to" accessibility links', +'tog-showjumplinks' => 'Enable "jump to" accessibility links', [etc.]
Do we want this? I've always been of the mind that straight quotes are the more normal thing on the Web, and there's no point in trying to use curly quotes. Curly quotes look a bit odd on the Web, and they're also hard to type and copy, which makes it annoying for anyone editing messages (either developers or local sysops).
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Simetrical wrote:
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 9:57 AM, siebrand@svn.wikimedia.org wrote:
- Prettification of quotes (by Jon Harald S?\195?\184by)
-'tog-showjumplinks' => 'Enable "jump to" accessibility links', +'tog-showjumplinks' => 'Enable "jump to" accessibility links', [etc.]
Do we want this? I've always been of the mind that straight quotes are the more normal thing on the Web, and there's no point in trying to use curly quotes. Curly quotes look a bit odd on the Web, and they're also hard to type and copy, which makes it annoying for anyone editing messages (either developers or local sysops).
Nothing necessarily wrong with them, but we should be consistent one way or the other. If we're not using them generally, we should stick with plain ol' quotes.
- -- brion
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
Nothing necessarily wrong with them, but we should be consistent one way or the other. If we're not using them generally, we should stick with plain ol' quotes.
As I observed on IRC, this can also be inconsistent with user-added content, which will most commonly use straight quotes. For instance, the English Wikipedia's Manual of Style says http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MOS#Quotation_marks:
"The exclusive use of straight quotes and apostrophes is recommended. They are easier to type in reliably, and to edit. Mixed use interferes with searching (a search for 'Korsakoff's' syndrome could fail to find 'Korsakoff's syndrome' and vice versa)."
MinuteElectron's comment was "eww, curly quotes".
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Simetrical wrote:
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
Nothing necessarily wrong with them, but we should be consistent one way or the other. If we're not using them generally, we should stick with plain ol' quotes.
As I observed on IRC, this can also be inconsistent with user-added content, which will most commonly use straight quotes.
Indeed, this is one of the reasons I just reverted it. :)
- -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
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