[Translators-l] [Fundraising 2008] Small update

Huji huji.huji at gmail.com
Fri Oct 31 22:03:58 UTC 2008


On 10/31/08, Casey Brown <cbrown1023.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Huji <huji.huji at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks Casey, and I have a question for you:
> >
> > In the Special section, I see "left quote" and "right quote". I assume
> that
> > the software that is using these messages laters, knows that a "left
> quote"
> > appears first in LTR languages, but appears last RTL ones. If it doesn't,
> > either it should be considered in the software, or the "left/right quote"
> > pair should be changed to "starting quote" and "ending quote".
> >
>
>
> That's a good point, feel free to change it for the rtl languages to
> make it a lot clearer. :-)
>
>

That leaves me in confusion, Casey. For any change to be applied, we need to
know first whether "left" quote means that one that is going to appear on
the left of a word, or "before" the word starts. Can you clear that for
me/us please?

Hojjat (aka Huji)
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