[PATCH] tree view column header i18n; glade-fixup

David Hampton hampton-gnucash at rainbolthampton.net
Wed Feb 1 10:10:37 EST 2006


On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 09:58 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Previously in cases like this we'd dome something like:
> 
>   _("placeholder account:P")+20
> 
> to represent this.   Then we add a translator note that they only translate
> the string to the right of the colon, and leave the left-hand side alone.

That didn't always work.  I remember having to fix some similar
translation strings at one point because the entire string was
translated.  The "disambiguating prefix" should be a more standard way
to handle this problem.

David




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