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I understand these strings are example for appearance of font. Usually these are just ascii. It's nice to put #NOI18N comment for these keys in Bundle.properties file so that translators can find these should be ascii. Please evaluate. org/netbeans/lib/terminalemulator/support/Bundle.properties : MSG_Sample=The quick brown fox ..., MSG_Hello=Hello from Term
And why do you think that this should not be translated? I guess in many languages there is an analogue for this text... And the usefulness of seeing localized text is that user can see if selected font 'supports' his native chars... I think that ideally there should be localized text as well as this ascii English text in a preview area...
I'm agree with Andrew: this phrases should be translated, but probably not to all of the languages. The first one is pangram (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangram) and the Wikipedia article contains it's analogues in other languages. The second one should be translated if the first one was translated. I've added comments to clarify this: http://hg.netbeans.org/cnd-main/rev/b6684c987c43
Thank you very much for the evaluation and updating the property file.