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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: insert special characters
From:       Luciano Montanaro <mikelima () virgilio ! it> (by way of Luciano Montanaro
Date:       2003-12-14 23:24:21
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On Sunday 14 December 2003 19:32, André Somers wrote:
> >> 2) display the Unicode name for the codepoint. We'd have:
> >> 	U+0041: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A
> >> instead of
> >> 	UTF: 65
> >>
> >> (I just hope the translators won't kill me for adding thousands of
> >> translatable strings)
> >
> >why not compose the string i18n(LATIN)+i18n(CAPITAL) ....
>
> Because you can't assume you can just combine those two words in a
> translation. To give a few examples:
> -the order of the words might need to be changed
> -the form of one or two or both words may change if combined
> -the words may fuse into one term
> -etc. etc. etc.

Then maybe they should not be translated... Having a somewhat intelligible
description even if it is not in my native language is still better than a
number. Maybe html entities could be used. They surely don't have to be
translated, and they can also be useful.

Luciano
 
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