Docs Languages
Irish (Gaeilge)
Code ga. Not reviewed by a native speaker.
This page is generated by bun run docs:languages from the pack in src/core/lang/ga.ts. Do not edit it by hand: src/lang-docs.test.ts fails when it is out of date. A no-break space is shown as ~.
Quotation
| Register | Levels, outermost first |
|---|---|
| display | ‘…’, “…”, ‘…’ |
| literary | as display |
A quotation nested deeper than the levels listed starts over from the first.
Dashes
| What | Setting |
|---|---|
| break in the sentence | spaced em dash |
| break in the sentence, literary | spaced em dash |
| line of dialogue (a paragraph opening with a dash) | not set (dialogue is quoted) |
Spaces
- One-letter words kept with the next word: none.
- Short words kept with the next word, in a title (the opt-in rule
space.short-word): none. - A no-break space between a number and %: yes.
- A no-break space between a number and € after it: no.
- Abbreviations: no list.
Numbers
Groups of three are separated by ~, the decimal mark is ..
Sources
- https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/formex/physical-specifications/character-encoding/use-of-quotation-marks-in-the-different-languages (Publications Office, quotation marks per language: ga
‘…’“…”‘…’) - https://publications.europa.eu/resource/cellar/01ed788a-d266-11ec-a95f-01aa75ed71a1.0015.01/DOC_1 (Interinstitutional Style Guide, Maltese edition, PDF of 19 April 2022: 6.4 spacing table with %, 6.5 “in Maltese, English and Irish publications a point separates whole numbers from decimals” and a space marks thousands, 7 euro: “the same rule applies in English and Irish”; it is evidence about Irish only through those statements)
- https://knowledge-centre-translation-interpretation.ec.europa.eu/en/content/guidelines-translating-eu-documents-irish (Knowledge Centre for Translation and Interpretation: points to the Irish ISG at style-guide.europa.eu/ga and to the An Gúm and Foras na Gaeilge guides; their text was not read)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark (cross-check only: lists Irish with
“…”first and‘…’inside, the opposite of the Publications Office table)
Notes
Quotation: the pack follows the Publications Office table (‘…’ then “…” then ‘…’, the English order). The Irish edition of the Interinstitutional Style Guide (Treoir Stíle Idirinstitiúideach, section 4.2.3) could not be read: style-guide.europa.eu is script-rendered, and the Cellar lists the Irish PDF (manifestations 0018.01 to 0018.03 of 01ed788a-d266-11ec-a95f-01aa75ed71a1) but serves no file for it (404 on DOC_1 and DOC_2). Wikipedia gives “…” first for Irish; quoteStyle: “us” gives that order. Apostrophe: d’, b’, m’ (d’fhág, b’fhéidir, m’athair) stand inside a word, which the engine already reads as an apostrophe, not a quote mark; the goldens in ga.test.ts pin that inside and outside a quotation, including a quotation written with straight single marks. The elisions field is empty: no Irish word starts with an apostrophe in any source read. Numbers: a point for decimals and a space between groups of three digits are read in the Maltese edition of the ISG, which states it for Irish; the Irish edition was not read. The group separator is a no-break space. Euro: the Maltese edition says Irish writes the euro sign before the amount without a space (€30). The pack sets percentSpace (5% becomes 5 %) but not currencySpace, so no space is added before €: 30€ stays 30€ and €30 is untouched. Not implemented, not verified: one-letter words to keep off the end of a line (none sourced), abbreviation lists (none read), the dot-above letters of the old orthography and the fada need no rule (they are letters; tests pin that they are kept), the Irish dash conventions (not read), and everything in the Irish edition of the ISG. The task brief says typograf covers Irish; this pack was not compared with it.
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