Re: String break request for Orca

[Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>]

Le mardi 17 février 2009 à 19:57 -0500, Willie Walker a écrit :
> This has come back to spank me square in my butt.  I need to change:
> 
> _("%s level %d")
> 
> to:
> 
> _("%(role)s level %(level)d")
> 
> Although my testing and testing from a Hungarian translator (Hammer 
> Attila) showed that the first form worked, another Hungarian translator 
> (Gabor Kelemen) ended up being able to coax intltool into being more 
> picky.  So, we need to go with the parameterized form.

Is the first form really buggy? I'm all in favour of this change for
post 2.26, but I need to be convinced this is really a problem worth to
break the string freeze.

Claude

> Gabor has also shown me that "msgfmt -cvo /dev/null hu.po" will detect 
> translations that attempt to translated the parameter names (e.g., 
> "(role)" and "(level)" in the above), alieving my concern about those 
> things getting translated by accident.
> 
> Ah well, for the better, I guess,
> 
> Will