https://mediawiki1.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=OntologyClass_talk%3ABodyOfWater 2026-04-25T03:08:41Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.39.3 https://mediawiki1.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/index.php?title=OntologyClass_talk:BodyOfWater&diff=49841&oldid=prev 2015-12-17T19:52:33Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 21:52, 17 December 2015</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>While introducing a Portuguese label, I noticed that that the French and Italian labels were erroneously written using the single quote (' U+0027) instead of the apostrophe (’ U+2019). Since labels use natural language and not computer language sintax, the proper <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">tipographical </del>characters should be used. However, this is a very common mistake, probably made all over across Wikipedia, and I'm not sure all agree on using the most proper symbols instead of the most common ones, specially in languages like English that do not usually make use of diacritics. Apotrophes are mostly used in English for the possessive case, so they would rarely appear on labels, but in Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, French and other Romanance languages they are quite common. Should I fix this in the other languages' labels as well?</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>While introducing a Portuguese label, I noticed that that the French and Italian labels were erroneously written using the single quote (' U+0027) instead of the apostrophe (’ U+2019). Since labels use natural language and not computer language sintax, the proper <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">typographical </ins>characters should be used. However, this is a very common mistake, probably made all over across Wikipedia, and I'm not sure all agree on using the most proper symbols instead of the most common <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">wrong </ins>ones, specially in languages like English that do not usually make use of diacritics. Apotrophes are mostly used in English for the possessive case, so they would rarely appear on labels, but in Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, French and other Romanance languages they are quite common. Should I fix this in the other languages' labels as well?</div></td></tr> </table>

Jaccoud https://mediawiki1.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/index.php?title=OntologyClass_talk:BodyOfWater&diff=49840&oldid=prev 2015-12-17T19:49:34Z

<p>Character misuse in some labels</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>While introducing a Portuguese label, I noticed that that the French and Italian labels were erroneously written using the single quote (' U+0027) instead of the apostrophe (’ U+2019). Since labels use natural language and not computer language sintax, the proper tipographical characters should be used. However, this is a very common mistake, probably made all over across Wikipedia, and I'm not sure all agree on using the most proper symbols instead of the most common ones, specially in languages like English that do not usually make use of diacritics. Apotrophes are mostly used in English for the possessive case, so they would rarely appear on labels, but in Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, French and other Romanance languages they are quite common. Should I fix this in the other languages' labels as well?</div>

Jaccoud