Re: gnome goals for 3.6

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Piotr Drąg <piotrdrag gmail com> wrote:

> What about strings with embedded markup, like this one: "Unfortunately
> GNOME 3 failed to start properly and started in the <i>fallback
> mode</i>"? Are they also supposed to be changed in some way?

These cases are tricky.
Sometimes you can eliminate the markup by doing something like

s = g_strdup_printf ("<i>%s</i>", _("fallback mode"));
/* Translators, %s stands for 'fallback mode' here */
msg = g_strdup_printf _("Unfortunately GNOME 3 failed to start
properly and started in the %s"), s);

But this is considerably more clumsy than the embedded markup version,
and you may well introduce memory leaks and new 'split string'
translation issues this way.

Use your judgement.