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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Encoding problems with i18n() and kdbgstream (KDE 3.1rc2)
From:       Hans Petter Bieker <bieker () itk ! ntnu ! no>
Date:       2002-11-29 19:30:26
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On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Jonathan Singer wrote:

> > Is this just a shortcoming of KDevelop or does KDE/QT l10n demand by desing
> > that original messages always be in (US-)English?
>
> If you're planning to put the project into the KDE CVS, please use US
> English for translatable strings, function and variable names and comments.
> It makes things much easier for translators, documentation writers and means
> that in the absence of a translation, users reliably get English texts.

The KLocale class assumes that the strings you pass to KDE will be in US
English. That should perhaps be documented in klocale.h?

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