[aur-dev] [PATCH] Make some translatable strings friendlier to common usage.

Loui Chang louipc.ist at gmail.com
Sun Dec 21 16:38:33 EST 2008


On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 10:15:28PM +0100, Cilyan Olowen wrote:
> Looking at the file, I'm not sure this is an issue here.
> 
> But, please be careful when removing punctuation from translation, the
> punctuation shall be translated as much as text. As an example, in
> french the characters ':;?!' shall have a (non breakable) space before
> them. Not having it is a miskate. Whereas having it is a mistake in
> english.
> 
> "Question?" shall be translated in french by
> "Question ?" or even better
> "Question ?"

Ah that makes things a bit tricky.
This patch is so the strings can be used in other places easily, mainly
for labels and such.
When it comes to full sentences, all punctuation should be included.



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