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

[Simon Eugster]

Oh, what a …

I totally agree with youm Mads. As far as I understand it is true that
we'd only have to (for example) put a link to unicode.org if we used
the NamesList.txt file here?
<http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/NamesList.txt> I'm not a native
English speaker, so if anyone really understands the terms of use
<http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html> please let me know what is
correct.

I tried to describe the most important interpunctation characters like
2013 to give some hints about correct typography. The reason why I
described the music notes is mainly the screen shot, and it completely
FAILed.

If we can use NamesList.txt I'll remove some unnecessary translations.
It's also in my interest to keep the amount of text to translate as
small as possible.

thanks
Simon

2009/6/28 Mads Bondo Dydensborg <mads at dydensborg.dk>:
> 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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