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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

Den 15/12/2016 09.43 skrev "Michael Steinberg" <michsteinb@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> Am 14.12.2016 um 21:21 schrieb jp charras:
>>
>> Le 14/12/2016 à 20:51, Chris Pavlina a écrit :
>>>
>>> Can we rename "Normal" and "Normal+Insert" to "THT" and "SMT", or
>>> "Through hole" and "Surface mount", or something similarly descriptive?
>>> I *still* have to mouse over for the tooltip to remember which is
>>> which...
>>>
>> I agree.
>> But do not use short names.
>>
>> "Through hole component" and "Surface mount component", or something
similar is better, because too
>> short names are *really* hard to translate.
>
> Hello!
> While I understand the argument, I have to confess that I don't
particularly like when standard terms are translated to my language,
especially if it takes screen estate. In the end you will need to learn
them anyways. Then again it's no problem to simply use the english version
in first place...
>

The good thing is that you can choose to run kicad in english if you like.

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