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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: [Typo (unsure)] Kstars
From:       Torsten Rahn <rahn () kde ! org>
Date:       2008-08-27 16:20:50
Message-ID: 200808271820.50510.rahn () kde ! org
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BTW: The German translation "Tiefer-Himmer-Katalog" in KStars is a bit 
misguided: I don't think that any astronomer has ever used that term:

Everybody here calls it by it's English name "Deep Sky Catalogue".

Torsten

On Wednesday 27 August 2008 18:05:14 Jason Harris wrote:
> > And there are cities with strange names, like:
> > 100 Mile House
> > Truth or Consequences
> > Very Large Array
> > ACT
>
> 100 Mile House, BC, Canada:  http://tinyurl.com/6flys7
> Truth or Consequences, NM, USA:  http://tinyurl.com/68tztk
>
> (BTW, TorC is named for an old TV game show, not a movie...)
>
> > Same for Valéncia->Valencia (also not sure, but in portuguese it should
> > be Valência or Valença, and I ignore how it should be in catalan lang)
>
> How many emails from angry Valencians would this change generate?
> (although it looks like the accent mark in Cities.dat isn't the
> correct one, if wikipedia is to be believed):
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valencia,_Spain


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