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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    RE: koffice translations!!!
From:       Tinkl_Lukás <Lukas.Tinkl () merlin ! cz>
Date:       2000-09-27 14:04:56
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> >Torben is so nice as to implement what many non-English 
> users asked: being
> >able to enter numbers in kspread using their locale.
> >Well, in many languages, it's the comma that is used for the 
> decimal point,
> >and kspread used to use the comma for separating arguments 
> passed to a 
> >koscript function call. But it can't be both, otherwise 
> myfunc(1,2,3) could 
> >mean a lot of different things !
> >So, as decided since quite a long time now, he fixes this, 
> turning the comma
> >into a semicolon, which isn't a decimal point for anyone.
> >Of course the examples had to be fixed ! It's pointless to 
> have examples, 
> >otherwise.
> 
> Well, I was one of those who complained that the decimal points don't
> make any sense in German and that we'd need commas (in the program and
> the examples). So I'm glad this is fixed, of course.

So am I, indeed

> But how come that Stephan Kulow says he was told all those changes
> could happen with strings that were already there? And why wasn't it
> possible to fix the strings in a way that just turns them 
> fuzzy instead
> of letting them appear totally untranslated? And why, finally, wasn't
> it possible to tell us some time in advance if this move was "decided
> since quite a long time now"?

Exactly my words, I already told David about this - I'd be only repeating
myself :(((
Strange, so far we didn't get any reply at all from Torben himself.
Does he even know there are mailing lists around? (I haven't seen anything,
even on the developers' lists)

> Seems there's a pretty serious communication problem around here.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Thomas

A big one

Regards,
Lukas Tinkl <lukas@kde.org>

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