The English Typo Thread

**dante696** · 16-05-2012, 07:23

Originally Posted by willy_sunny

Can't let this thread sink now, right?

Location: CreateProfileDialog
Original: The profile name "%1" is already existent!
Fixed: The profile name "%1" already exist!
No need to get wordy, don't we?

This does not take to much space for that dialog.
Your fix would be "The profile name "%1" does already exist!"

**PeterS** · 16-05-2012, 14:22

Thanks for the hint. Changed to: The profile name "%1" already exists.

**willy_sunny** · 17-05-2012, 04:59

More

Software: Update Client

Location: QObject

Original: Update server returned invalid version nr (%1)

Suggested: Update server returned invalid version number (%1)

or was it build number? since I couldn't generate the error, so I'll leave that to you

Edit: Appearently the Copyright text is not modifyable?

**willy_sunny** · 17-05-2012, 13:17

Well, this one really isn't technically a typo, but it's just redundent

Location: CreateChannelDialog

Entry 1:Syntax: "<strong>[?Spacer#]Text</strong>"
Entry 2:Where "?" stands for an alignment (r=right, c=center, l=left),
Entry 3:"*" will repeat the text to fill the whole line.
Entry 4:Change "#" to get a unique channel name.
Entry 5:Use one of the three-character-blocks as text for a special spacer: "---", "...", "-.-", "___", "-.."
Entry 6:Example:
Entry 7:[lSpacer0] a left aligned text
Entry 8:[cSpacer1] a centered text
Entry 9:[rSpacer2] a right aligned text

Must we use 9 entries instead of something like this?

<p>Syntax: "<strong>[?Spacer#]Text</strong>"<br />
Where "?" stands for an alignment (r=right, c=center, l=left),<br />
"*" will repeat the text to fill the whole line.<br />
Change "#" to get a unique channel name.<br />
Use one of the three-character-blocks as text for a special spacer: "---", "...", "-.-", "___", "-.."<br />
<strong><u>Example:</u></strong></p>
<div align="left">[lSpacer0] a left aligned text</div>
<div align="center">[cSpacer1] a centered text</div>
<div align="right">[rSpacer2] a right aligned text</div>

or something like that

And another redundent entry:

Location: EnumerationDialog

Entry: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd">
<html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">
p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }
</style></head><body style=" font-family:'MS Shell Dlg 2'; font-size:8.25pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; font-size:8pt;"></p></body></html>

Really? An entry that produced absolutely "NOTHING". It's just pure HTML.

**willy_sunny** · 18-05-2012, 02:43

Another one

Location: QObject

Entry: <p>Failed to start "%1".</p><p>Please start createfileassoc.exe manually.</p><p>Press <strong>Ignore</strong> to now show this message again.</p>

Corrected: <p>Failed to start "%1".</p><p>Please start createfileassoc.exe manually.</p><p>Press <strong>Ignore</strong> to not show this message again.</p>

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