Re: Translating panel clock format

[Simos Xenitellis <simos74 gmx net>]

Per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=140891&msg=47
it mentions that the glibc locale policy is that am_pm information will
be blank if the country does not official support AM/PM to signify the
time.

This leads to problems of programs allowing to show the time in a
12-hour format while nothing shows whether it's AM or PM.

Personally, I would feel that the glibc locales should always have the
localised am_pm information and let the end-user choose. However, per
Libc policy, you would simply remove the option for 12-hour/24-hour time
and simply check if "am_pm" is empty or not.

Simos

On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 09:30, Christian Rose wrote:
> ons 2005-02-02 klockan 08:19 +0000 skrev Mark McLoughlin:
> > 	In gnome-panel, translators can translate the strings "24" and
> > "24-hour" to "12"/"24" and "12-hour"/"24-hour" depending on whether a 12
> > or 24 hour clock is the norm in that locale.
> > 
> > 	Unfortunately, its easy to miss the fact that you're not supposed to
> > translate these values like other strings, so you get the likes of:
> > 
> > msgid "24-hour"
> > msgstr "24 sata"
> > 
> > 	Which neither the panel nor gconftool-2 can understand.
> > 
> > 	There are comments in the po file explaining the situation:
> > 
> >  #. Translators: the only valid values for this are "12-hour" and "24-hour"
> >  #: applets/clock/clock.schemas.in.h:4
> > 
> > 	But I guess its easy to miss that. I don't have any other ideas how to
> > make this foolproof, though.
> 
> Really, translators should be more careful, but perhaps stressing the
> fact even more in the comment and making the comment slightly more
> verbose and explanatory would help somewhat:
> 
> /* Translators: This controls whether the GNOME panel clock should
>    display time in 24 hour mode or 12 hour mode by default. The only
>    valid values for this are "24-hour" and "12-hour". If your locale
>    uses 24 hour time notation, translate this to "24-hour". If your
>    locale uses 12 hour time notation with am/pm, translate this to
>    "12-hour".
> 
>    Do NOT translate this into anything else than "24-hour" or
>    "12-hour". For example, if you translate this to "24 sata" or
>    anything else that isn't "24-hour" or "12-hour", things will
>    not work. */
> 
> 
> Christian
> 
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