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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: More Plasma stuff not respecting locale settings
From:       Albert Astals Cid <aacid () kde ! org>
Date:       2008-12-18 22:33:34
Message-ID: 200812182333.34794.aacid () kde ! org
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A Dimecres 17 Desembre 2008, Karl Ove Hufthammer va escriure:
> Onsdag 17 desember 2008 skreiv Albert Astals Cid:
> >> In the graphical calculator applet, the various symbols (+-X/.=
> >> and C and AC) are not translatable. In addition, the display
> >> doesn't use the decimal separator in KLocale (e.g., ‘3,14'
> >> instead of ‘3.14‘ for Norwegian Nynorsk), though input using
> >> both ‘.' and ‘,' works correctly.
> >
> >Do you really need to i18n "+-X/" ?
>
> Yes! Very much so. Different languages use different characters for these
> operators. For example, for Norwegian Nynorsk, we would use ‘+− �:‘.
>
> Actually, three of the four characters in the original string isn't even
> correct for *English*. The minus should be a minus, −, not a hyphen, -.
> The multiplication symbol shouldn't be the letter X; it should be the ×
> operator. And the division symbol should be a real division slash ∕, not
> the solidus / (neither of them should be confused with the fraction slash,
> ⁄, which is used for making fractions). The division sign ÷ *may* also be
> used, but since this is sometimes used a minus symbol too, the division
> slash is better, IMHO.

Here again open a bug if you think these are the correct symbols that should 
be used.

Albert

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