Re: gnome-core / distributors

[Pablo Saratxaga <pablo mandrakesoft com>]

Kaixo!

On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 02:53:44AM +0100, Karl Eichwalder wrote:
> In gnome-core I read:
> 
> #. for languages that can't display atilde, replace 'á' with 'a'
> #: gnome-about/contributors.h:22
> msgid "Szabolcs 'Shooby' Bán"
> msgstr ""
> 
> But even hu.po doesn't show "atilde" but an "a" with an "´".  Now I'm
> wondering what character is actually meant.  Using iso-8859-1 I can
> offer â (a with caret) or ã (a with a tilde).  And also á, of course :)

It was probably me that wrote that comment (I did add _( ) and comments
for various names listed there), and maybe I did an error and put atilde
instead of aacute... the tilde is not used in Hungarian as long as I know.

Now, I think that maybe the right thing to do for contributors.h file
would be to put all names in pure ascii only, and for theose that should
be written with some accents or in non-latin scripts: put a _( ) over the
ascii name, and put as comment the real name in utf-8 (telling in the comment
it is the real name in utf-8)

-- 
Ki ça vos våye bén,
Pablo Saratxaga

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