Re: Single or double quotation marks + Typography

[Hannie Dumoleyn <lafeber-dumoleyn2 zonnet nl>]

I will comment between the lines:

On 01/08/2018 01:00 PM, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote:

On 27 December 2017 at 10:45, Hannie Dumoleyn
<lafeber-dumoleyn2 zonnet nl> wrote:

While translating, I encountered many fuzzy strings where only quotation
marks have changed. Example:
What does "“super user"” mean?
The user'’s privileges
type ‘<cmd>rhythmbox</cmd>’

I have read the guidelines [1] and [2], and found them very interesting.

The question is: is there a difference between single and double quotation
marks? In my language there is no difference between the two, but it is
recommended to use either single or double, not both in one document.

The first case is a quotation mark to reference a phrase

Good. So this means that, for quotation marks, we use “ U+201C and ” U+201D. (Unicode instead of ASCII).

 and the
second case there is an apostrophe to show ownership.

In the case of the genitive we use an apostroph, U+2019 (Not ASCII)

We do not use single quotation marks (e.g. to quote, reference or emphasise).

What you say here is that my third example should be “<cmd>rhythmbox</cmd>” and NOT ‘<cmd>etc’.
On our wiki [1] I see this:
quote
The following Unicode character usage is still under discussion:
Single quotation marks (U+2018 and U+2019, ‘‘’ and ‘’’) rather than straight single quotes (‘'’) or backticks (‘`’). These should be used to quote one- or two-word phrases, rather than extended blocks of text (for which double quotation marks should be used).
unquote
Is this still under discussion (your comment: We do not use single quotation marks)?
Personally, I think using single quotation marks is useful as in my third example. I use Right Alt + ().

I realize that it is quite a job to change all, but maybe it should be
mentioned in the guidelines which is preferred.

For translators it means extra work, because a translation becomes fuzzy as soon as one character changes.

I find the following site useful:
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html

Regards,
Hannie

Let me know what you think.

Hannie

[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/GnomeGoals/UnicodeUsage
[2] https://developer.gnome.org/hig/stable/typography.html.en


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