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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: AW: patch for abbrowser (2nd request)
From:       Ferdinand Gassauer <f.gassauer () aon ! at>
Date:       2001-02-28 7:46:45
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On Tuesday, 27. February 2001 23:35, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 February 2001 14:09, Ferdinand Gassauer wrote:
> > QString sTitle[] = {
> >       i18n( "Doctor" ), i18n( "Dr." ), i18n( "Dr" ), i18n( "Miss" ),
> >       i18n ( "Mr." ), i18n( "Mr" ), i18n( "Mrs." ), i18n( "Mrs" ),
> >       i18n( "Ms." ), i18n( "Ms" ), i18n( "Professor" ), i18n( "Prof." ),
> >
> > As far as I understood all titles have to be given in english.
> > What if no english title exists (or it sounds realy strange)  ?
> > I didn't say that there are names in the code. I said that titles are
> > part of the name and should not (necessarily) be translated but only
> > extracted and stored in the title field.
>
> Well yes, but it would be easier if it was stored like:
>
> i18n("Doctor:Dr.:Dr:Miss:Mr.:Mr:Mrs.:Mrs:Ms.:Ms:Professor:Prof.");
>
> because then it can be translated to
>
> "Dokter:Dr.:Dr:Mevrouw:Mevr.:Mevr:Mijnheer:Mhr.:Mhr:Professor:Prof.:Prof"
>
> because in dutch no distinction is made between Ms. and Mrs. and I can
> image that in other language there might be even more distinctive titles.
>
> So translating it 1:1 doesn't make much sense IMO.
Another point:
in german we distinguish between  address and title
 
this looks like "Herr Doktor" "Frau Magister"
IMHO this 2 fields should be separated if this database should ever be used 
for serial letters and similar.

>
> Cheers,
> Waldo

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