Re: [PATCH] Collocate strings to simplify translation
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Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@lyx.org>
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- May 24, 2012, 09:55 UTC
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Op 24-5-2012 10:32, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek schreef:
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> On 05/24/2012 09:41 AM, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote:
>> The translation of 'Untracked' and 'Ignored' might depend on the following
>> word. To help the translator, this patch collocates the term 'files'.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Vincent van Ravesteijn<vfr@lyx.org>
>> ---
>> wt-status.c | 6 +++---
>> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/wt-status.c b/wt-status.c
>> index dd6d8c4..9b65a8c 100644
>> --- a/wt-status.c
>> +++ b/wt-status.c
>> @@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ static void wt_status_print_other_header(struct wt_status *s,
>> const char *how)
>> {
>> const char *c = color(WT_STATUS_HEADER, s);
>> - status_printf_ln(s, c, _("%s files:"), what);
>> + status_printf_ln(s, c, _("%s:"), what);
> How can "%s:" be translated? _() should be removed here.Some languages might use a character different from ':'. For example, Chinese uses a full-width character ':' (unicode 0xFF1A) instead of a half-width character. Maybe this is taken care of by the system/shell or whatever, maybe not. Other examples are languages that read from right to left. I guess it should then be translated by ":%s".
This will probably be a matter of convention.
Vincent