[josm-dev] Localisation policy for quotes etc.

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 15:00, Andre Hinrichs <andre.hinrichs at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi List!
>
> Since I currently check all translatable texts I found that sometimes
> quotes are single and sometimes double. E.g. "isn't" is sometimes simply
> "isn't" and sometimes "isn''t".
>
> Which is the correct way?

It's always a single quite in English, but perhaps they're double
quotes in the JOSM source to work around something?:

aoeu josm (r2766) $ ack "tr\(.*isn''t" src
src/org/openstreetmap/josm/gui/download/BoundingBoxSelection.java
219:                setErrorMessage(tfLatValue,tr("The string ''{0}''
isn''t a valid double value.", tfLatValue.getText()));
251:                setErrorMessage(tfLonValue,tr("The string ''{0}''
isn''t a valid double value.", tfLonValue.getText()));

src/org/openstreetmap/josm/gui/widgets/BoundingBoxSelectionPanel.java
160:                feedbackInvalid(tr("The string ''{0}'' isn''t a
valid double value.", getComponent().getText()));
200:                feedbackInvalid(tr("The string ''{0}'' isn''t a
valid double value.", getComponent().getText()));

src/org/openstreetmap/josm/gui/dialogs/changeset/query/AdvancedChangesetQueryPanel.java
533:                    throw new IllegalStateException(tr("Current
value ''{0}'' for user ID isn''t valid", tfUid.getText()));

> Forthermore I find sometimes american english (e.g. 'initialize').
> Wasn't the overall policy to use british english?

I thought the source default was en_US since if it was en_GB the
existing en_GB translation would be pointless (and we'd need a en_US
one).

> And finally sometimes I find XHTML style end tags in translated texts
> (e.g. '<br />' instead of '<br>'). By now I haven't found any in the
> source. Is it ok to use them or should these be fixed?

The HTML is rendered by some internal Java stuff, both of those tags
work just as well when fed to it so I don't think it needs to be fixed
either way.