Re: Mistranslations in gtk

[Tino Meinen <a t meinen chello nl>]

Op vr, 14-01-2005 te 09:03 -0500, schreef Matthias Clasen:
> Would it be useful to come up with a convention to make these cases
> more obvious in the pot files ? Would e.g.
> 
> [progress bar label]|%d %% 
> 
> have prevented the mistranslations ? 
> 
> Or should I always add a comment like 
> 
> /* translators, don't translate the part before the | */
I would prefer the latter option. And perhaps even say:
/* translators: Only translate the part after the | */

Otherwise I might think the | needs to be included.
The sentence is still abiguous though, so even better would be:
/* translators: Only translate the part after the '|' the part before
the '|' is to be skipped */
or
/* translators: The translated message should only contain the
translation of the part after the '|' */

updated Dutch gtk+ has been sent to the maintainer.

Tino