Twenty Nineteen: Consider making the "—" divider in the header translatable.

[kjellr]

Twenty Nineteen uses an em dash to separate the site title from the tagline:

As originally noted by @pixolin in the Twenty Nineteen GitHub repository, in non-english languages, the em dash is not always the most appropriate/common character for this situation. To address this, we should consider allowing this to be translatable.

Note that the em dash is currently inserted (and hidden when appropriate) via CSS, so this could require a bit of a reworking of that functionality.

Original report: ​https://github.com/WordPress/twentynineteen/issues/557

[truchot]

Here's my suggestion to make "—" translatable (made during WordCamp Paris contributor day)

[karmatosed]

I would be interested in other feedback so lets get that with a label on this.

[karmatosed]

I feel like this simply needs testing to confirm the approach so moving it to that.

[sabernhardt]

A translatable glyph probably would have been a better choice in 2018, but I do not recommend making the change now.

1. The :before pseudo-element is in the stylesheet, and it could remain in the styles for sites that copied parts of the main stylesheet into a child theme stylesheet. Those sites would have two dividers.
2. Anyone who might prefer a different glyph probably has adjusted the CSS—or else switched themes—in the past five years.

Also, the patch does not account for the extra 0.2em margins on the left and right of the divider, which still would be possible if the translatable string adds an HTML element (or placeholders for the open and close tags).

[karmatosed]

I agree with this being closed for now, thank you everyone.