Style/Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous Guidelines
This page is for small guidelines that don't need their own wiki page.
Compatability Guidelines
These guidelines exist to minimise unnecessary compatability problems with clients that don't fully support Unicode.
Use of Quotation Marks (" and ')
- 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.
Use of Ellipsis Mark (...)
- Use "..." (3 full stops) for an ellipsis rather than the special ellipsis character "…".
- This was discussed on the mailing list here.
Discussion
What about dashes vs. hyphens? See 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. AnswerMe, please, at least concerning the dashes vs. hyphens question ... Thanks. Editor:selig
- It would be probably better to ask on the mailing list. --LukasLalinsky
Authors: ZeroGravitas
