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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Getting & in i18n strings
From:       Diego Iastrubni <elcuco () kde ! org>
Date:       2006-04-11 17:26:27
Message-ID: 200604112026.28054.elcuco () kde ! org
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Besides what has been said before, even if you want to split the message as 
described in previous message:

i18n("Log") + QString(" & ") + i18n("Messages")

Is very wrong. For example, in Hebrew the "and" is prefixed to the next word:

רישום *ו*הודעות.
In Arabic it's a two letter word prefixed just like in Hebrew. I think there 
are some languages that the "and" is postfixed to the next word, but I am 
unsure about that.

As a rule, never split messages seen on screen, this might work for you on 
your language, but not on other languages.


ביום שלישי, 11 באפריל 2006, 16:41, � כתב על ידי Clytie Siddall:
> During QA, I've noticed occasional translators in my team treating
> both ampersands as symbols of some kind. It's not necessarily clear
> to the translator that the linguistic ampersand is being escaped,
> especially since ampersands are primarily used as accelerators in KDE
> PO files.
>
> In that case, I agree that avoiding the use of the ampersand
> linguistically would also avoid confusion and inaccurate translations.
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