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Re: lynx-dev internationalizing menu options
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Klaus Weide |
Subject: |
Re: lynx-dev internationalizing menu options |
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Wed, 10 Nov 1999 07:14:13 -0600 (CST) |
On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, T.E.Dickey wrote:
> > Note that the present handling of Y/N already introduces a bug which has
> > not been addressed by changes in the code. Be careful how you translate
> > that.
>
> do we now have an example where gettext("yes") and gettext("no") begin with
> the same character? (if so, then it's worth looking into).
Even if that's never the case, gettext("yes") might start with the same
letter as "no".
I don't know of such a case, but something that may come confusingly
close: The Greek word for "Yes" (when capitalized) starts with
U+039D # GREEK CAPITAL LETTER NU
which *looks* just like a capital N.
Anyway, I hope the patch that's already in dev.14 takes care of the
problems - if only by encouraging translators to omit translation of
"yes" and "no" if there are foreseeable problems.
Klaus