Fixes and changes to Lokalize, request for feedback

Karl Ove Hufthammer karl at huftis.org
Fri Aug 2 19:35:49 BST 2024


Karl Ove Hufthammer skreiv 02.08.2024 20:30:
>
>> Below suggestions will help a lot with professional looking texts, a 
>> la Apple-level professional text. The new HIG also includes these:
>> 10. Automatic smart single and double quotes
>> 11. Automatic en, em dash formatting. Two for en, three for em.
>> 12. Unicode character suggestions. If there is a ASCII ligature, 
>> offer to replace it with Unicode characters, for instance for arrows, 
>> ellipsis’, dashes etc.
>> 13. Smart character suggestion. For instance offer to change 1 x 1 
>> into multiplication sign, offer to change hyphen into minus sign when 
>> used with mathematical operations etc. Greater sign, less than sign 
>> etc. etc.
>
> Also this should preferably be implemented as an autocorrect feature 
> in KTextEditor (used by Kate, Kwrite, Lokalize etc.). But if 
> implemented, it would be safer to keep it by disabled by default. 
> Having " and ' turned into “” and ‘’ will break HTML markup. 

BTW, you might be interested in these KDE goal candidates for 2024:

https://phabricator.kde.org/T17406
https://phabricator.kde.org/T17433


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Karl Ove Hufthammer
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