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Re: Untranslatable strings

 

Hi,

On 09.06.2017 02:15, Chris Pavlina wrote:

>> Interesting... I wonder why we should use an UTF-8 char instead four
>> simple full-stops... anyway for a quick and dirty solution why not use
>> three dots instead?

> They look way better in certain UI fonts. However if there's a bug that
> stops them from being translatable I'm all for switching to a simple ...
> -- honestly I thought that's what we were using anyway

The untranslated strings are ASCII only. These strings are used in the
"C" locale, when there is no character set information available, and in
non-localized builds.

The recommended way to use the ellipsis character in the GUI is to
provide an English translation file.

   Simon

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