[development] LinksDB vs. Links

Frederik 'Freso' S. Olesen freso.dk at gmail.com
Wed Aug 2 15:41:08 UTC 2006


2006/8/2, Matthew Jenkins <mattj at inty.net>:
>On 2 Aug 2006, at 15:46, Morbus Iff wrote:
<zap>
>>>> * You use double spaces after sentences in _report_submit.
>>>I am english.  I use english grammar.
>>
>>I am unable to parse if this is English as in American, or English as
>>in "I'm from England". Regardless, however, the double spacing has
>>nothing to do with grammar, and everything to do with typesetting.
>>Ultimately, it's a bad habit picked up from grade school, with
>>teachers who don't actually know WHY they want their students to do
>>that.
>>
>>See:
>> http://desktoppub.about.com/cs/typespacing/a/onetwospaces.htm
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_stop#Spacing_after_full_stop
>
>both american sites and meaningless to UK english grammar, which states
>that after a full stop you have 2 spaces.

The Wikipedia article contains information on international usage of
full stops, not just American English (not english, according to
English grammar).

Anyway, Drupal core is in en_US, from what I can tell. It would be
lovely to have an en_GB translation going though, IMHO. :)

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Frederik 'Freso' S. Olesen <http://freso.dk/>


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