Re: [URGENT] Bad translatable string for folder merge dialog

[Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny eglug org>]

On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 01:25:23PM +0200, Luca Ferretti wrote:
> The way to build the secondary message for merge folder dialog[1] is
> really really bad from a localization point of view.
> 
> 
> /* Translators: the first string in this printf
>  * is the "An older/A newer/Another" string defined some lines before.
>  */
> secondary_text = g_strdup_printf (
> 	_("%s folder with the same name already exists in \"%s\".\n"
> 	  "Merging will ask for confirmation before "
> 	  "replacing any files in the folder that "
> 	  "conflict with the files being copied."),
> 	time_str,
> 	dest_dir_name);
> 
> Could we change it ASAP, providind 4 different translatable strings:
> 
> 1.  "An older older with the same name already exists in \"%s\".\n"
> 2.  "An newer folder with the same name already exists in \"%s\".\n"
> 3.  "Another folder with the same name already exists in \"%s\".\n"
> 4.  "Merging will ask for confirmation before replacing any files in the
> folder that conflict with the files being copied."
> 
> Same, of course, for the similar message related to files:
> 
> 	secondary_text = g_strdup_printf (
> 			_("%s file with the same name already exists in \"%s\".\n"
> 			  "Replacing it will overwrite its content."),
> 			time_str,
> 			dest_dir_name);
> 

I highly second that, in its current form, it is impossible to translate
into Arabic, for example.

Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
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