Re: Short note to programmers

[Karl Eichwalder <ke suse de>]

Stanislav Brabec <utx@penguin.cz> writes:

> On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 01:38:08PM +0000, root wrote:
> > 
> > c. msgid "Name:"
> > c. msgid "About..."
> 
> If I remember correcly discussion about french, these rules are correct
> in most languages except french. There should be a space (NBSP) preceeding
> ':'. In case of '...' I'm not sure.

Yes, but this doesn't mean that a french hacker is considered to apply
french rules to international source code ;)

> Another short rule:
> 
> For expressions e.g. "%d mm" going into line breaking algorithm you can
> use NBSP instead of space. You will prevent ugly line breaks. NBSP is in
> most charsets (except US-ASCII as character 160==0xa0). Similarly you
> can use × (multiply) instead of plain x in expression like "%d × %d"

Good advice (for translations).  Another question: is SHY (soft hyphen)
supported by the GTK+ widget set?  This would come in handy for german
translations since we love long words...

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