Re: gtranslator change (important)



El lun, 18-03-2002 a las 13:11, Keld Jørn Simonsen escribió:
> On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 09:49:32PM +0100, Fatih Demir wrote:
> > On Sun, 2002-03-17 at 21:43, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
> > 
> >     What do you use middle dot for? You should not use middle dot as a special
> >     character, it is a a letter-like symbol.
> > 
> > We use it to indicate free space -- instead of " " you see "·" (or "^"
> > or it's translations if the display of the middle dot "·" is not desired
> > at all by the translator for his/her locale). We use it as a special
> > character in a letter-like situation. Hmm :-)
> 
> · is something that you use in the Spanish language Catalan, it is
> used to indicate a prolonged consonant as far as I know. 
> You should not use it to indicate a space. Only Microsoft does
> such uninformed things:-)


Yes, here at Spain we use "·", I didn't thought about it but as Keld
said, it could cause problems here...

Cheers.

> 
> Keld
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