[PATCH] tree view column header i18n; glade-fixup
Derek Atkins
warlord at MIT.EDU
Wed Feb 1 10:16:55 EST 2006
Quoting Christian Stimming <stimming at tuhh.de>:
> Derek Atkins schrieb:
>> 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.
>
> Yes, we had that, and 80% of the translators messed it up in the
> first round, and 40% still in the second round. (I guess if you check
> the current po files for these strings, you would immediately find
> ones which have messed this up... checking... yeah, look for
> "frozen:f" in http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk/po/da.po ...)
>
> The point is that we obviously needed this "disambiguating prefix"
> already long ago, but there wasn't a standard solution available. Now
> (since gtk2.4 to be precise) there is a gnome-wide standard solution
> available, so we should better use that instead of yet another
> home-brewn solution.
I'll note that [2] has the similar restrictions, and we could just
as easily implement it as it currently stands as:
strchr(_("placeholder account:P"))+1
-derek
> Christian
>
>>> [1]
>>> https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2005-October/014236.html
>>> [2] http://www.gtk.org/api/2.6/glib/glib-I18N.html#Q-:CAPS
>
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