Re: string freeze breakage



On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 16:34 +0100, Christian Rose wrote:

> ons 2004-03-17 klockan 13.56 skrev Kjartan Maraas:
> > > [...]
> > > > +      <locale name="C">
> > > > +       <short>Module for GtkFileChooser</short>
> > > > +       <long>Module to use as the filesystem model for the
> > > > +       GtkFileChooser widget.   Possible values are "gnome-vfs" and "gtk+" </long>
> > > > +      </locale>
> > > 
> > > There are three spaces before the second sentence. It should probably
> > > just be two.
> > 
> > Why not one?
> 
> IIRC it's a common thing in English to follow a period with two spaces
> before starting a new sentence. Something from the typewriter era, I
> suspect, to make the start of new sentences stand out a bit more with
> fixed-width spacings etc.

I think it died with the typewriter era too, although a small number of
people try to keep it alive :)

-- 
Andrew Sobala <aes@gnome.org>

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