Re: New translatable string unclear

[Mişu Moldovan <dumol gnome ro>]

În data de Mi, 21 dec 05 la 15:44, Peter Bloomfield a scris:
> On 12/21/2005 07:41:11 AM, Mişu Moldovan wrote:
> > În data de Mi, 21 dec 05 la 14:28, Peter Bloomfield a scris:
> > > On 12/21/2005 03:43:27 AM, Mişu Moldovan wrote:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > > > #: ../src/sendmsg-window.c:4500
> > > > #, c-format
> > > > msgid "Could not load %s header file %s: %s"
> > > >
> > > > I guess it refers to face/x-face header files and the user would   
> > > > see  something like: "Could not load X-Face header file  
> > > > myface.png:  Permission denied". Can someone confirm or infirm  
> > > > this?
> > >
> > > Confirmed.  Would putting the strings in quotes make it clearer?
> > >
> > > msgid "Could not load \"%s\" header file \"%s\": %s"
> > >
> > > Peter
> >
> > Quotes would help a bit but I think that the first %s is not really  
> > necessary. I would rather replace the problematic string with the  
> > following two (related) strings:
> >
> > msgid "Could not load X-Face header file %s: %s"
> > msgid "Could not load Face header file %s: %s"
>
> But X-Face and Face are names of message headers, so should they be  
> translated?  If not, how can we mark them as such?

There are already some occurences of "Face" and "X-Face" in Balsa's  
translatable strings. See below:

dumol twinsun ~ $ grep -i face balsa.HEAD.ro.po | grep msgid
msgid "_Face Path"
msgid "_X-Face Path"
msgid "Face header file %s is too long (%d bytes)."
msgid "Face header file %s contains binary data."
msgid "Error loading face: %s"
msgid "Bad X-Face data"
msgid "Error loading Face: %s"

As always, translators need to figure it out somehow. Developer  
comments to guide them would be most welcomed.

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