Re: String break request for Orca

[Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>]

Le mercredi 18 février 2009 à 03:35 -0500, Willie Walker a écrit :
> 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.

OK, I see the problem.
Approval 1 of 2 from gnome-i18n.

Claude

> 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
> >