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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Untranslatable strings in kdelibs
From:       Clytie Siddall <clytie () riverland ! net ! au>
Date:       2006-03-21 6:59:29
Message-ID: 8CC33693-8B35-4C64-AB94-F56D020546B9 () riverland ! net ! au
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Thanks for your reply, Chusslove. :)

On 20/03/2006, at 8:44 PM, Chusslove Illich wrote:

> An informative link seems to be http://www.projectpluto.com/ 
> calendar.htm,
> but I doubt that it is of much help for translation. I'd say you have
> three options:
>
> 1) Grab a Vietnameese who studies Persian something and ask him  
> what to do.
> 2) Leave it as is.
> 3) (Though unpopular in languages with Latin alphabet) Try to guess/ 
> find
> out the sounding of these, and write them down phoneticaly in your
> language.

I gather the middle choice is usually a good bet in guessing answers  
to multiple choice. :D

I stuck with copying the original strings. The overlap between  
Vietnamese and Arabic languages/culture is vanishingly small.

Whoever develops that file, please do insert some context: some of  
the abbreviations could easily be misinterpreted as English strings.

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm  
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN



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