From kde-i18n-doc  Sun Jan 27 23:51:48 2002
From: Carsten Niehaus <cniehaus () gmx ! de>
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 23:51:48 +0000
To: kde-i18n-doc
Subject: Answer to Lauris mail
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Hi all.

I would like to present my thoughts about the entities in the doc
(like &microsoft;).

As we are approaching the final KDE3.0 I think NOW is the=20
perfect time to fix all know problems with it. I am especially
worried about the GUI. In the GUI are tons of application
names like Noatun/noatun instead of  and I am sure this
is the very same for MicroSoft (tm) and others.
Lauri told me that eg &microsoft; wouldn't work on the GUI.

Ok, so the only way out of it is this:
All translators should report the missuse of a trademark/application
name to somebody (Malcolm, Lauri, I don't know). As we=20
are now starting to proofread everything (at least I am) this is
really a good chance of cleaning up the mess. I am volunteering
for kde-multimedia (GUI).

Questions:=20
Is this realistic
To whom shall we report?
Is this a-good-thing (tm)?

Carsten

(reply to kde-doc-english@kde.org AND cc me, please)