Colons and translation

Subject: Colons and translation
From: "Saunders, Ian" <ISaunders -at- syntellect -dot- com>
To: "techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 23:41:02 -0700

Hi,

Can anyone tell me whether colons used to introduce lists, sequences, etc. cause problems for text localisation/translation?

If they do not have this function in all languages (that are likely to require translated versions!), would you expect the person doing the translation to deal with them, or would you be expected to modify your text in some way before it gets translated (e.g. replace them with periods)?

TIA!

Regards

Ian Saunders
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