[Kdenlive-devel] Something wrong with the unicode descriptions - and do we really want to have this info in Kdenlive?

[Mads Bondo Dydensborg]

Hi there

The new unicode entry stuff is nice, but...

There is something wrong with some of the descriptions. Compare this:

http://kdenlive.org/unicode-dialog-music-note-r3606
with
http://decodeunicode.org/u+266c
and 
http://decodeunicode.org/u+1D162

The description fits 1d162, not 266c.

I don't know if there are other problems - I can easily fix them, but I wanted 
to ask if we should have these descriptions in Kdenlive at all? What is the 
ambition? There are thousands of unicode characters - will we ever be able to 
explain them all or even a meaningful percentage of them? Also, it puts a 
burden - of sorts - on the translators, localizing all these descriptions, as 
at least some of the glyphs are sometimes used differently in different 
languages.

Wouldn't it be more feasible to extract this information from some central 
source? Perhaps some of the files available at 
http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/

Just my 0.02€

Regards

Mads

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