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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: i18n in KDE-1.1 branch (kmail)
From:       Harri Porten <porten () tu-harburg ! de>
Date:       1999-05-31 11:00:00
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Sven Radej wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 31 May 1999, Stefan Taferner wrote:
> >On Sat, 29 May 1999, Sven Radej wrote:
> (...)
> >Ok, then I will move the extra explanation to an extra string. Then only
> >the single word will be in English.
> >
> >> I am asking about policy. Can messages be altered or not?
> I still didn't get answer to my question. Daniel Naber sent me a patch which
> corrects spelling in some messages (altered are only cpp files; not pot ones)
> 
> Changes are like "wasnt" -> "wasn't", "do you wan't"  -> "do you want"
> etc. What shall I do? Is it ok if Daniel changes the pot files too? Or is the
> translation mechanism smart enough to understand that "wan't" is the same as
> wan't"?

It is smart enough not to throw away the old translation but it will be
marked fuzzy. I think Stephan has the final word on saying if manually
going trough the files is okay (I think it would be).

Harri.

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