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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: default resolution of kde?
From:       Uwe Thiem <uwix () iway ! na>
Date:       2004-12-31 7:34:40
Message-ID: 200412310934.40893.uwix () iway ! na
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On Friday 31 December 2004 01:38, Ingo Klöcker wrote:

> I heard/read the rumor that Microsoft tests all dialogs with the German
> translation because the German language seems to have the longest
> words/labels in average (of all languages Microsoft cares for because
> of a sufficiently large market). Of course, it always depends on the
> translation, i.e. maybe there is a shorter translation which would also
> work. One particularly ugly example is the "Sent-Mail folder:" label in
> KMail's composer which is translated with "Ordner für versandte
> Nachrichten:" which is twice as long as the English text.

Finnish and Icelandic definitely lead to longer textx on average.

Uwe

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