Re: on usage of non-ascii symbols

["Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" <pclouds gmail com>]

On 2/27/07, Leonardo Fontenelle <leo fontenelle gmail com> wrote:
> Epiphany uses real ellipsis like this, and curly double quotation
> marks (in opposition to the common, "vertical" one). Unicode gives us
> a lot of unambiguous characters for situations like that, and many
> people (ex. web standards people) think you should use them as often
> as possible. I kind of agree with that, too, but as you said they are
> hard to enter and most people don't like them that much. Recently I
> talked to the rest of the pt_BR l10n team and we decided not to use
> this "nice and hard" unicode chars.

Using such characters would be great if the font users are using
supports them. I'm certain Bitstream does but what if users use
another font that doesn't? (hey if pango can determine such situations
and auto convert to ascii alternatives.. i'm dreaming..)
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Duy