On Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 03:15:41PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>>>> On Thu, 23 Jul 1998 12:02:30 +0100, Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>>>> said:
>
> EZ> What's wrong with moving the %s in the translated string? May you give me
> EZ> an example of a translation that can't be done with that construction?
>
> EZ> The method used is not a hack, is a way to use less disk space and
> EZ> memory.
>
> Maybe I've supplied wrong exaple. But sometimes two %s in a string
> may cause truble, because words order in polish and english differ.
Yes, it's the same in spanish, that's why I try to avoid using several %s
in a string. (For slink we plan to use gettext, that solves that
problem).
> And another exaple
> translating strings separatedly gives:
>
> Installing Instaluj�
> Error reading B�ad odczytu
> Insert W��
> Rescue Disk dyskietka ratunkowa
>
> But when it comes to combain it into sentences, it should
> look like:
>
> Installing Rescue Disk Instaluj� dyskietk� ratunkow�
> Eror reading Rescue Disk B��d odczytu dyskietki ratunkowej
> Insert Rescue disk W�� dyskietk� ratunkow�
Oops. I see. But that means more than simply removing the
foo?string1:string2 stuff. That means expanding every %s in translatable
strings (only file names are safe). Oh, well, I will take that into
account for slink.
> EZ> I guess there's no need to rewrite Makefiles or scripts, as the final
> EZ> user won't see them. For the message files I guess the lang/ approach is
> EZ> the best we can get.
>
> It would be nice to keep one debian package boot-floopies,
> and just run
> make polish resc1440.bin
> not to have different packages for different languages.
> But this requires some modifications in makefiles and
> scripts.
That's the goal. We'll do it for slink.
Thanks,
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Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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