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[Ingo Klöcker]

On Saturday 10 April 2004 10:26, Stephan Binner wrote:
> On Thursday 01 April 2004 14:41, Erik K. Pedersen wrote:
> > It would be really nice if the developers would write "could not",
> > "would not" etc in the first place because the translators have to
> > remove a fuzzy every time these changes are made. I realize it is
> > not a major problem,
>
> Same for style guide conformance (eg capitalization rules, ":"/"..."
> usage and yes, sentences are really allowed to be ended with a
> punctuation mark).

Is there actually a place where the usage of "could not" instead of 
"couldn't" is documented? I'm sure there are more dos and don'ts, but 
how are we, the developers, supposed to know about this? At least I 
couldn't find this information in the KDE User Interface Guidelines.

Regards,
Ingo
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