Re: Strange sentence...

[Matthew S. <gu...@ch...>]

> Just one thing (though pretty minor :), what do you think about the
> elipsis "=8A" (I think its called that way). In os 9 time it was used
> exlusivly in menus to indicate that a dialog would come up when the
> user clicks there. Nowadays "..." three points are also quite common.

I've always used the elipses (elipsis [elipses plural case], so you're=20=

correct), which I think looks a little better, and I believe is defined=20=

in the Aqua HIG as being the prefered method.

> Do you all think that we should build some sort of ruleset for the
> translators to make translation easier (otherwise leave it :) and
> make Fire more consistent across the different language?

What kind of rules exactly?  I think most of us have been going by=20
something relatively close to the following:

1.  Translate contextually
2.  If something doesn't fit size-wise, feel free to nudge it a little=20=

bit
3.  If you spot an error in the English version, or something won't get=20=

translated, send a message to a developer.

I guess I think that we've all been working by close to the same rules=20=

going English-->whatever, so I'm not totally sure what kind of rules=20
you might mean.

> Ok, here's my original question to the English maintainer again. :)

I would suggest putting in a constant there like we have for "@ has=20
logged on" and Fire replaces that with a string.  We could do the same=20=

there.  Or, perhaps better would be to reword it entirely (as you=20
suggested):

In version 0.30.a, Fire changed the account information formatting.  As=20=

such, you will need to re-enter your account information (username and=20=

password) for each service you use.  Strange things may occur if you=20
switch between this version of Fire, and versions previous to 0.30.a


Matthew Stuckwisch
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