There's no need for any serious patches to GNOME actually, since one line of msgfilter with sed handles almost everything…
For the "those (other) software" part, I think I mentioned some non-GNOME apps/developers using "..." in msgids, and for consistency with their big brother MS Windows I prefer not to change them for now.
I have to say I am tired of submitting translations with correct punctuations to GNOME zh_CN and correcting othets' usage msg-by-msg now. The first time I talked about punctuation on the zh-i18n list to Aron is already two months ago, and I don't want to be stuck on such easy clear thing by all kinds of invalid excuses. Using such words was definitely not my intent, but it does help push things forward in a more powerful way, especially in cases where people being reluctant and giving you all kinds of excuses.
On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Mingye Wang (Arthur2e5)
<arthur200126 gmail com> wrote:
> Sorry for my language anyway.
You know your behaviour is rude and not welcome here, and you do it
anyway. Please refrain and try to fix your attitude before you send
anything, instead of apologizing afterwards. The bad language won't
get you anywhere.
>> Those software don't even use the
>> same typographical considerations for msgids.
That is true and we should to something about it. Maybe you could
start by offering patches for the offending apps?
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Alexandre Franke
GNOME Hacker & Foundation Director