Improve typography
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Description
We should improve our typography across Nextcloud’s base localization in the following ways:
- Spaces before ellipses in strings that contain them should be removed. This is nonstandard. (We should also make sure all ellipses use the correct character,
U+2026.) U+0027should be replaced withU+2019as it is generally preferred in modern digital typography.U+0022should be replaced withU+201CandU+201Dfor opening and closing quotes respectively.
Most of this is an easy enough find-and-replace job, it would just result in a huge diff across multiple repos.
We should also set guidelines for this. We refer to the GNOME HIG already, which recommends using these, but mentioning them explicitly as well as sending an update to app developers would be nice.
cc @jancborchardt
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the base localization strings containing spaces before ellipses, U+0027, or U+0022, then review the GNOME HIG guidance already referenced. Done means the affected strings use the specified typography and explicit guidelines are provided for app developers across the involved repositories.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- design, localization
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100