Translation issue: use of "%s" - Mailing list pgadmin-hackers

From Jean-Michel POURE
Subject Translation issue: use of "%s"
Date
Msg-id 200306131510.03265.jm.poure@freesurf.fr
Whole thread Raw
Responses Re: Translation issue: use of "%s"  (Andreas Pflug <Andreas.Pflug@web.de>)
List pgadmin-hackers
Dear friends,

Just a small remark about translation. The string "Create a new %s" cannot be
translated into several languages.

1) In French, "new"  will be translated "nouveau", "nouvelle" or "nouvel".
Writing "nouveau/nouvel/nouvelle" is tedious. Nearly all European languages,
except English are impacted.

2) In some other languages, strings can be aggregated in a single word (like
in Hungarian and German). Making the translation ***clearly*** impossible.

Therefore, "%s" should rarely be used, except for the integration of
invariable strings.

3) Examples
-> working strings:
"Connected to database: %s"
"Username: %s"
"User \"%s\" was disconnected"

-> non-working strings:
"Click on the %s button"
"The thread was aborted because %s"
etc...

Just my 0.02 cents.
Cheers, Jean-Michel


pgadmin-hackers by date:

Previous
From: "Dave Page"
Date:
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] graphical sql-query builder
Next
From: Andreas Pflug
Date:
Subject: Re: Request for help about Debian packaging