[haiku] Re: Authentification?
- From: Daniel Devine <devine-mlist@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:08:50 +1000
I cannot believe I did not notice this myself!
One of the GSOC students was working on i18n but I am not sure how that is
going. There is a lot of internationalization issues in Haiku, if you go
through the code you can see that there is language support hardcoded into
applications...
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Nigel Malthus <malthi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A minor point, probably: I see the word "authentification" used in the
> Mail app (in the mail provider database attributes). I gather that
> spelling may be quite common in European IT, but the correct English
> word is "authentication". Wkipedia redirects. And see
> http://dag.wieers.com/blog/authentification-does-not-exist
>
> Am I worrying too much to see that as a potential problem in an
> international project, where both words may get into the codebase? If
> some function expects a string of one spelling, but gets the other?
>
> Put it this way: I'm not at all familiar with coding practice but if
> you guys maintain a dictionary of standard/difficult words, this may be
> one you've missed :-)
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> --
> Nigel Malthus,
> Christchurch, NZ.
>
> "The only real way to look younger is not to be born so soon."
> -- Charles Schulz, "Things I've Had to Learn Over and
> Over and Over"
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