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Removing ampersands
We’ve decided to remove ampersand symbols from text in favour of the actual ‘and’ wording. It’s better grammatically. See this issue.
A few languages have been done – we need translators to check their languages on the GitHub repo for this symbol and to replace if it exists.
Thanks in advance.
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#2 2014-05-12 11:17:13
- uli
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Re: Removing ampersands
For de-de it’s the lines 248/249:
title_body => Titel & Haupttext
title_body_excerpt => Titel, Haupttext & Exzerpt
… where both &s;
can be replaced by und
.
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Re: Removing ampersands
Thanks Uli – I’ve updated the de-de file now.
So, from doing a search, these languages still contain an ampersand or two…
bs-ba
bg-bg
da-dk
et-ee
id-id
he-il
is-is
pt-br
pt-pt
tr-tr
sv-se
vi-vn
zh-tw
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#4 2014-05-12 11:45:52
- uli
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Re: Removing ampersands
philwareham wrote #280733:
Thanks Uli – I’ve updated the de-de file now.
You’re welcome. But you also changed the capital H of “Haupttext” to a small one. (Twice)
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Re: Removing ampersands
uli wrote #280736:
You’re welcome. But you also changed the capital H of “Haupttext” to a small one. (Twice)
Yeah, because house style is for sentence case – all of the German strings should eventually be sentence case unless there is a very good reason not to.
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#6 2014-05-12 11:56:41
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Re: Removing ampersands
Sentence Lower case for subjects isn’t used in German orthography. It’s plain wrong.
Last edited by uli (2014-05-12 11:57:29)
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Re: Removing ampersands
Ah, didn’t know that. Corrected now. Thanks!
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Re: Removing ampersands
Why would / should a CMS care whether one writes & or and?
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Re: Removing ampersands
@towndock
Sorry, what? I don’t understand your comment.
We are taking ampersands out of UI text (because it needs HTML encoding for certain uses and is not really necessary). Nothing more.
We are not forcing users to stop using ampersands in their content!
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Sorry… dumb question on my part (I was lacking the context). Carry on…
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Re: Removing ampersands
can haz campevans?
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