On Thu, 22 Nov 2012 12:25:56 +0100 Massimo Maiurana <maiur...@gmail.com> said:

> I saw that the "about" box has changed and now it displays the text of the
> license. this text is also translatable, but I think it is just wrong to let
> anyone adapt the license to its own language.

literally the code comments say not to translate beyond a certain point. :)

> you do know better than me that words has different meanings in different
> contexts, so a text translated in a different language could be read in a way
> different from the way it is intended in the original language, and this could
> lead to legal issues.
> 
> so I think it would be better to split the content of the "about" box in two
> parts, one traslatable and another one kept in english.
> the translatable parte could be this:
> "<title>Copyright &copy; 2000-2012, by the Enlightenment Development
> Team</><br><br>We hope you enjoy using this software as much as we enjoyed
> writing it.<br><br>To contact us please
> visit:<br><hilight>http://www.enlightenment.org</><br><br>All rights
> reserved.<br><br><hilight>LICENSE</><br><br>"
> the untranslatable part would of course be the license itself.

hmm - i didnt want to go to the effort of snprintfing into a buffer... :( i
guess i should though.

> just my 2ยข
> 
> -- 
> 
>   Massimo Maiurana               GPG keyID #7044D601
> 
>   La fede e' credere in cio' che sai non essere vero
>                     [Mark Twain]
> 


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