Opened 6 years ago

Closed 5 years ago

Last modified 4 years ago

#30400 closed Cleanup/optimization (fixed)

Improve typography of user facing strings.

Reported by: Jon Dufresne Owned by: Jon Dufresne
Component: Core (Other) Version: dev
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Ready for checkin
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

Inspired by comment: https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/30399#comment:2

Prefer:

  • “” for quotes
  • for contractions
  • rather than --
  • rather than ...

Change History (12)

comment:1 by Jon Dufresne, 6 years ago

Has patch: set
Patch needs improvement: set

comment:2 by Mariusz Felisiak, 6 years ago

Triage Stage: UnreviewedAccepted

Agreed, but we have to skip all messages that can appear in a shell output (see #30184).

comment:3 by Mariusz Felisiak, 6 years ago

Owner: changed from nobody to Jon Dufresne
Status: newassigned
Summary: Improve typography of user facing stringsImprove typography of user facing strings.

comment:4 by Claude Paroz, 6 years ago

As for me, #30184 is hopefully not the last word on this issue. Preventing all users from having good typographic output (that is real readability improvements) just because some systems will not make the effort to transition to UTF-8 is not fair.
As we are wrapping those outputs anyway, I think that we should be able to detect the output encoding, and add some ascii simplification/conversion when the output does not support UTF-8.

in reply to:  4 comment:5 by Nick Pope, 6 years ago

Agreed - It seems a shame that we can't have nice things because the Windows Command Prompt has been neglected for so long.

There is an interesting article on how this is already being fixed, but it will take time until the majority of users do not have a broken command prompt.

I was already looking into sprucing up some of the command output and was considering the exact same possibility of substituting some ASCII alternatives on terminals that do not support UTF-8. Give me a few weeks and I'll resurrect my branch for this to see if there is a possible way forward.

In the meantime, we should stick with the policy of not supporting unicode in shell output.

Also, out of interest, we only support Python 3.6+ for Django 3.0 which includes PEP 528 and PEP 529 and this may mean that issues such as #30184 and #30324 become a thing of the past anyway. I haven't tested this to make sure though, and the ability to disable unicode shell output would be a good idea anyway.

comment:6 by Carlton Gibson, 6 years ago

+1 there. We should be able to push users forward at this point in history.

Not exactly the same issue but we had a user on Django Dev hitting a unicode error on macOS too, which means they’d set a non-unicode locale (for unknown reason). I feel like we should be able to emit a decent warning in this kind of case linking to a doc explaining what they need to do. (I’ve found myself on servers with broken/primitive locales plenty of times too… similar would help there.)

Anyhow, that’s just emoting at this point.

comment:7 by Jon Dufresne, 6 years ago

Patch needs improvement: unset

comment:8 by Mariusz Felisiak, 5 years ago

Triage Stage: AcceptedReady for checkin

comment:9 by Mariusz Felisiak <felisiak.mariusz@…>, 5 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: assignedclosed

In 42b9a232:

Fixed #30400 -- Improved typography of user facing strings.

Thanks Claude Paroz for assistance with translations.

comment:10 by Mariusz Felisiak <felisiak.mariusz@…>, 5 years ago

In 0dafada:

Refs #30400 -- Improved typography of user facing strings in admin changelist.

comment:11 by Claude Paroz <claude@…>, 4 years ago

In dfb9ae1d:

Refs #30400 -- Improved typography in admin_doc/missing_docutils.html.

comment:12 by Mariusz Felisiak <felisiak.mariusz@…>, 4 years ago

In 0e6fa65f:

Refs #30400 -- Improved typography in debug and csrf templates.

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