[wp-hackers] Translating 1.5 with Rosetta

[Albert Holm]

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 03:15:23 -0800, Matthew Mullenweg <m at mullenweg.com>  
wrote:

> Luca Lizzeri wrote:
>> Also, many strings are present both with and without punctuation: Now
>> I am seeing both "Search" and "Search:". It would be easier if
>> end-of-phrase punctuation was kept outside the translatable strings
>
> Been trying to clean this up when I see it.
>

How would removing this work with right-to-left languages?
I imagine translating the : would make it easier, but maybe then the label  
should be on the right side of the textbox also.
[input]:Search but with the : moved out, it would be [input]Search: or  
something similar.