Re: Translation of numeric values (application gnome-schedule)

[Philip Van Hoof <spamfrommailing freax org>]

On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 16:29 -0300, Raphael Higino wrote:

[CUT]

> I thought something like these:
> 
> <b>Untitled:</b> Run command "ls" at 02:01 of the day 3 of every month.
> <b>Untitled:</b> Run command "ls" at 02:01 of the day 04/03 of every year.
> <b>Untitled:</b> Run command "ls" every minute from 02:00 to 02:59 of every
> Wednesday.

[CUT]

> As a translator, I just couldn't finish translating gnome-schedule to
> Brazilian Portuguese because of the problem with the ordinals and the genre,
> and because I had no time to find someone who can help me with the Python
> file lang.py. It's easier to translate PO's than having to code so the
> program looks good in a language.


Perhaps, however..

We are coming closer to a first release everyday. I propose that if the
i18n-team wants this type of frequency translations in this first
release, somebody with Python knowledge in the i18n-team puts that logic
in the file. It's all possible by only editing this file indeed.

Else I might take a look at it someday myself. It is, however, not a
high priority for me. We have other features for the next version of
gnome-schedule in mind already :-).

Since it is very very easy to change the frequency translations in this
lang.py-file I do hope somebody of the translation-teams can pick this
up. Mainly because nomatter how much we try, we are just unaware of all
the translation-issues. Nether me, Gaute Hope nor Kristof Vansant (the
three core developers of gnome-schedule) are any good at languages and .
translating.

At this moment is the at-support not altering it's frequency
information. In English it will dispay "At YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM" in the
treeview. The crontab, however, is still doing hocus pocus with the
frequency information that is to be displayed to the user.


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