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merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:

> There are no such things as "localized prefixes".  Any software that
> puts anything other than "Re:" is broken.  "Re" is latin... it's not
> English.  There's no need to change it when going to a different
> language.

However, whereas English letters and memos use `re', letters and
memos in other languages don't.  So I somehow see the point of the
people who want to translate things.

Of course, the right thing to do is to consider that the Subject
header's value has a syntax, too, and is not just free-form text.
Thus, the string `Re:' should be *displayed* in the local language,
but when sending a message, the Subject header should contain the
literal `Re:' string.
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