From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Apr 29 2002 - 23:35:51 EDT
--- Karl Ove Hufthammer <huftis@bigfoot.com> wrote: >
Dom Lachowicz <doml@appligent.com> wrote in
> news:1020090838.1824.29.camel@a227.appligent.com:
>
> > *) Stops re-duplication of strings
>
> Some strings probably *need* to be duplicated. I'm
> thinking of
> strings which are identical in English, but not in
> the target
> language. I have also localized Mozilla, and there I
> found several
> such strings, e.g. 'Forward' (which could mean the
> opposite of
> 'back' or 'to send on'). Such strings are sure to
> crop up in
> AbiWord too, sooner or later.
I was always suspicious that gettext did this. Is
there a way around it? Also we need to fix the
problem where multiple %s need to be in a different
order between English and the localized language.
Will gettext help with this?
Andrew Dunbar.
> --
> Karl Ove Hufthammer
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