Re: About dpkg translation, please consider i18n when choosing words

[Clytie Siddall <clytie@riverland.net.au>]

On 14/06/2005, at 10:59 PM, Frans Pop wrote:

> I'm not sure about two spaces between sentences; this seems to be  
> valid in
> English although it is not in most other languages. My personal  
> opinion
> is that it is a waste of space ;-)
> Note also that double spaces are getting obsoleted because HTML  
> renders
> those as a single space anyway.

Double spaces are not valid in English. I have no idea why they are  
used in some .po files. I always remove them.
> I am fairly sure that having a space before an exclamation mark (or  
> any
> other punctuation) as in both examples above is _not_ correct.

You are right. We occasionally use them in Vietnamese, to avoid  
obscuring a vowel which has an accent hooked on the right-hand-side,  
but only then. Definitely not valid in English.

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm  
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)

Clytie Siddall--Renmark, in the Riverland of South Australia

Ở thành phố Renmark, tại miền sông của Nam Úc