id est in Contact Form

[lfrantzen]

Hi,

a tiny thing, in the contact form the textfields show hints like:

i.e. John Doe

This means basically "I am John Doe" (which holds for few), and not "in example John Doe". This seems to be a common mistake - to read that as "in example", but it means "id est". (please correct me if I am wrong).

The correct writing would be "e.g. John Doe". (exempli gratia)

On the other hand, do people need examples for how names look like?

Cheers,
Lars

[yellowled]

The correct writing would be "e.g. John Doe". (exempli gratia)

First of all, this is not related to the contact form plugin, but to your customized version of 2k11. You can simply replace all the instances of “i.e.” by “e.g.” in your templates plugin_contactform.tpl. (I'm not sure if they're hardcoded in there or pulled from lang constants in the lang_*.inc.php files, in which case you'd have to edit those as well as the versions in the UTF-8 folder.)

On the other hand, do people need examples for how names look like?

There might of course better examples of form fields which “need” a placeholder attribute (that's what said example text technically is) than the “name” field in a contact form. Then again, it would look pretty dumb if only some input fields of said form would have a placeholder, wouldn't it?

YL

[yellowled]

Okay, I just checked: the placeholder values are actually pulled from lang constants in 2k11. I will fix those in 2k11 later. So you can just replace “i.e.” by “e.g.” in

* lang_en.inc.php (needs to be saved in iso-8859-1)
* UTF-8/lang_en.inc.php (needs to be saved in UTF-8)

or copy them from the 2k11 repository on GitHub later.

YL

[lfrantzen]

Hi Yellowled,

thanks a lot, as usual!

Cheers,
Lars