1491866 - Improve readability of accented pseudolocale

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Internationalization, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

We could improve the readability of pseudolocales by only inflating vowels, and accenting every other character.

The expansions is less consistent, but it makes the text more readable for developers.

Comment 1

[Dan Minor [:dminor]]

Attachment: Screenshot with only every other character accented

Here is a screenshot with only every other character accented. The current code already only accents a, e, o and u.

I also experimented with only accenting the most commonly used English letters (etaion shrdlu) but I think the every other letter approach is more readable. Please let me know if you'd like to see a screenshot of the current approach.

Comment 2

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

(In reply to Dan Minor [:dminor] from comment #1)

Please let me know if you'd like to see a screenshot of the current approach.

It would be great to have one, so that the comparison makes sense (same system, font, settings, etc.).

Comment 3

[Zibi Braniecki [:zbraniecki][:gandalf]]

Can we try accents only over constants and double vowels?

Comment 4

[Dan Minor [:dminor]]

Attachment: Screenshot of unmodified Firefox in accented pseudolocale

Comment 5

[Dan Minor [:dminor]]

Attachment: Screenshot of vowels doubled, only consonants accented

Comment 6

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

(In reply to Zibi Braniecki [:zbraniecki][:gandalf] from comment #3)

Can we try accents only over consonants and double vowels?

Of the three this seems definitely more readable, and doesn't lose any text expansion, so it looks like a winner to me.

Comment 7

[Dan Minor [:dminor]]

I agree. I've opened a pull request here: https://github.com/projectfluent/fluent-rs/pull/202.

Comment 8

[Dan Minor [:dminor]]

Fix is present in fluent-rs 0.13.2.