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Here are some words, terms and symbols to conform to when correcting translatable strings: What about quoting the names of command line programs i18n("The program `ssh' or `kdesu_stub` is not found.\n" "Make sure your PATH is set correctly.")); in kdeutils/kdessh/sshdlg.cpp // This needs a bit of tidying up at some stage Application names! eg KMidi KSpread, except when referring to the executable Sidebar -> Navigation Panel (contentious) Actions: click the button, select from the menu, press a key eg. Select Options from the Settings menu Press Enter Click OK single click, double click where it used as a noun. eg. files will be opened with a double click click, double-click where it us used as a verb. eg. double-click the file preset restart menubar toolbar scrollbar formula bar tooltip filesize file system hard disk multisession -> multi-session infra-red -> infrared white space ? uppercase task manager real-time anti-aliasing can't / can not -> cannot Cannot -> Unable to - eg. "Unable to load file" rather than "Cannot load file" Avoid "..n't" generally except "don't" where it sounds awkward eg. You do not have permission grayscale high scores address book Todo ASCII CPU RAM CD-ROM POP MIME FTP LIRC SNMP DPI bpp or BPP? DCOP PGP KDE Qt web server web page web browser PHP CGI keys: Ctrl, Alt, Shift combinations: Ctrl+Alt+Delete OK popup menu sub-process spellcheck fine-tune screen saver Internet (c) - lowercase 'c' for copyright (however, Linux kernel changed every (c) into (C) during the 2.6-test series, according to laywers it's the only correct form... it's in the changelog ;-) ) '''Ok, I've raised the issue with core-devel :�)''' <no space before punctuation eg. "not this !", "but this!"> e-mail -> email EMail, E-Mail, E-mail -> Email directory -> folder, except for CLI OpenOffice -> OpenOffice.org
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