Re: String break request for Orca

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Claude:

Gabor Kelemen commented on the simpler form not working for him at 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572218#c6

Looks like whatever version of msgfmt that Gabor is using is smart 
enough to compare the order of the parameters.

Will

Claude Paroz wrote:
> 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