RE: I18n quick tips master from Russ Rolfe on 2006-01-09 (public-i18n-geo@w3.org from January 2006)

From: Russ Rolfe <rrolfe@windows.microsoft.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 08:56:51 -0800
To: "Richard Ishida" <ishida@w3.org>, "Martin Duerst" <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>, "GEO" <public-i18n-geo@w3.org>, "Judy Brewer" <jbrewer@w3.org>, "Shawn Henry" <shawn@w3.org>
Message-ID: <F7B97826912BC4419D5DDF53B21694530FA958F6@WIN-MSG-10.wingroup.windeploy.ntdev.mi>

From: Richard Ishida
Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 2:33 AM


> I'm even wondering whether we could just say:
>
> Escapes. Only use escapes (eg. &#xE1;, &#225; or &aacute;) in specific circumstances.
>
> What do people think?

I would recommend that we have both the names and the examples.  This way it becomes a teaching moment and more people will start to learn the names of these "things"

> Yes, removing 'declaration' may be ok.  What do others think?  This certainly helps wrt > text expansion in translation.

Agreed

Regards, Russ

Received on Monday, 9 January 2006 16:57:03 UTC