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{{Official style}}
=Miscellaneous Guidelines=


This page is for small guidelines that don't need their own wiki page.
This page is for small guidelines that don’t need their own wiki page.


==Use of special characters==
==Compatability Guidelines==


Use of basic ASCII punctuation characters such as ' and " is allowed, but typographically-correct punctuation (such as ’ for the English apostrophe) is preferred. The [[Style/Classical|Classical Style Guide]] has its own rules about punctuation in titles; please follow that guideline where it applies. Use normal Latin letters for Roman numerals: their Unicode versions exist only for compatibility purposes and its use is [http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode7.0.0/ch22.pdf discouraged by the standard (p.754)].
These guidelines exist to minimise unnecessary compatability problems with clients that don't fully support Unicode.


As always, [[Style/Principle/Artist intent|Artist intent]] overrides this guideline.
===Use of Quotation Marks (" and ')===


==“Top something” Playlists==
* Use standard ASCII single and double quotes " and ' rather than the enhanced versions.
* Use " (one double quote) for inch.
* Use ' (one single quote) for feet.


Bootleg torrents that are compilations based on playlists of charts authorities (like Billboard’s) should not be stored in MusicBrainz as releases. These playlists are often copyrighted by their issuers.
===Use of Ellipsis Mark (...)===


* Use "..." (3 full stops) for an ellipsis rather than the special ellipsis character "…".
** This was discussed on the mailing list [http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.audio.musicbrainz.user/8524 here].


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==="Top something" Playlists===
[[Category:WikiDocs Page]]

Bootleg torrents that are compilations based on playlists of charts authorities (like Billboard's) should not be stored in MusicBrainz as releases. These playlists are often copyrighted by their issuers.

===Other Do-Not's===

There's some guiding information available [[What Not To Link To|WhatNotToLinkTo]], it is no [[Official Style Guideline|OfficialStyleGuideline]] though but just information that should help editing.

==Discussion==

What about dashes vs. hyphens? See [http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=5281475 http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=5281475], I've encountered a similar problem there. Wouldn't it make a lot of sense if we would make full use of Unicode in the database and have some automated heuristic in the tagger to convert to ASCII if necessary? This heuristic could be made optional and dropped when a sufficient number of clients supports Unicode. I mean, the tagger does support Unicode in tags already, and so do several software players. Why should some hardware players pose a restriction for the whole system? Considering European languages, the replacement list shouldn't become too large to handle. Also, it doesn't have to be perfect, because in ASCII you can only do approximations of the correct typography, anyway. I'd volunteer to set up and maintain the list. [[Answer Me|AnswerMe]], please, at least concerning the dashes vs. hyphens question ... Thanks. Editor:selig
<ul><li style="list-style-type:none">It would be probably better to ask on the [[Users Mailing List|mailing list]]. --[[User:LukasLalinsky|LukasLalinsky]]
</ul>

[[Category:To Be Reviewed]] [[Category:Style]]

Latest revision as of 11:55, 20 April 2018

Status: This is an official style guideline.

This page is for small guidelines that don’t need their own wiki page.

Use of special characters

Use of basic ASCII punctuation characters such as ' and " is allowed, but typographically-correct punctuation (such as ’ for the English apostrophe) is preferred. The Classical Style Guide has its own rules about punctuation in titles; please follow that guideline where it applies. Use normal Latin letters for Roman numerals: their Unicode versions exist only for compatibility purposes and its use is discouraged by the standard (p.754).

As always, Artist intent overrides this guideline.

“Top something” Playlists

Bootleg torrents that are compilations based on playlists of charts authorities (like Billboard’s) should not be stored in MusicBrainz as releases. These playlists are often copyrighted by their issuers.


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