+1 on Grant's suggestion.
I would also change "person" to "userName" and "index" to
"conflictNumber".
-Brian
On Oct 22, 2007, at 11:11 AM, Grant Baillie wrote:
On 22 Oct, 2007, at 14:03, Reid Ellis wrote:
On Oct 22, 2007, at 16:43, bear wrote:
Reid Ellis wrote:
Maybe I could change 'em' and '/em' to "startItalics" and
"endItalics". The actual value for the strings currently known
as "em" and "/em" cannot be edited (they aren't surrounded by _
() - nor should they be). I have to embed these into the string,
since the location of the emphasized text can move, depending on
the locale. Perhaps I could use the names
"untranslateableStartItalicsCode" and
"untranslateableEndItalicsCode"?
If they are HTML tag names then I'm sure it can be explained in
the localization README about what they are. They should stay
the same as HTML tags are always in english. Changing to
something else removes the ability, IMO, of the translator
switching the tag to another tag that may be more appropriate for
the locale.
They're not actual HTML tags, they're binary codes embedded into
the string, which are later parsed so as to do proper styles.
If I were doing that, I would use a format like:
"%(index)3d. %(person)s changed the %(fieldName)s to %(value)s"
and embed the "tags" inside person, fieldName and value, i.e. do
_("%(index)3d ... %(value)") % {
'person': "<em>%s</em>" % person,
'fieldName': "<em>%s</em>" % fieldName,
...
}
That should make it clearer for localizers, I think.
--Grant
I guess I could change the conflict dialog to use HTML views, but
then I'd have to HTML-sanitize the user data being displayed.
Reid
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