[wp-polyglots] Last Call for 1.5.1 String Updates

[Kimmo Suominen]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 10:14:43PM +0100, iwan wrote:
> >On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 13:33:21 +0200, Mihailo Stefanovi? 
> ><mikis at mikis.org>
> >wrote:
> >
> >>No, the collon (":") is all right, but you'll notice that sometimes 
> >>there is a space before it, and sometimes there isn't, as in:
> >>
> >>E-mail: %s
> >>E-mail : %s
> 
> The reason for the inconsistent spacing is that the first example above 
> is used on a webpage, the second in an e-mail.  In the e-mails the 
> colons have varying amounts of spaces before them, so that they line 
> up.  This assumes, of course, that people's e-mail clients are set to 
> use a monospaced font for plain text messages.  Mine isn't -- so the 
> spacing looks even messier.  Maybe forget the alignment and use no 
> spaces before the colon in the e-mails?  Would cut down on different 
> text strings.

That's what I did with the fi_FI translation: lose the spaces.  It was
too complicated to maintain the correct length.

Regards,
+ Kim
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