On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 09:40 +0000, David King wrote: > On 2012-12-04 09:08, Philip Withnall <philip tecnocode co uk> wrote: > >On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 22:01 -0600, Ted Gould wrote: > >> On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 19:09 -0500, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > >> > I think it's time that we move away from using three periods (...) to > >> > represent the ellipsis and instead use the Unicode character (…). > >> > >> We've been trying to do this on the Unity Indicators and I wrote a small > >> automake fragment to test for them. It's a little bit hacky, but it > >> works and makes sure we don't regress. I'd love for it to get used and > >> improved in other projects. > >> > >> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~indicator-applet-developers/indicator-session/trunk.13.04/view/head:/tests/Makefile.am.strings > > > >That looks really useful! Perhaps it could get included in gnome-common > >and then used in GNOME projects? > > Looks good to me! Ted or Philip, can you file a bug against > gnome-common? If there is to be a GNOME Goal for this (and the other > checks, such as ‘spaces before ellipsis’) it would be good to get > gnome-common to offer some assistance. Filed! I’ve added Ted to the CC list. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=689602 Philip
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