Hi, We're revising the damned lies Catalan translation. We've detected an annoying error in the page, which is caused by our (...my) unability to translate the string properly.
In the same way that -in English- we say "a fruit" (because the word following the article starts with a consonant) but "an elephant" (because "elephant" starts with a vowel), in Catalan we use apostrophes before words that start with a vowel. That is, we say "el català" (consonant), and "l'anglès" (vowel). Look at the following string: #: ../templates/team.tmpl:12 msgid "%(team)s Page:" msgstr "Pàgina del %(team)s:" If we translate it like that, in the web site it will look like this: -"Pàgina del català" (correct) -"Pàgina del Anglès" (which is wrong! It should be "de l'anglès") If we use the apostrophe in the Catalan translation, the error will be the other way round (e.g. "Pàgina de l'Català" (which is wrong) Have you got a clue on how to solve that? I've noticed that the french team translated it as "msgstr "Page de l'%(team)s :" (which is wrong when the language starts with a consonant, like "français" itself) Is there a way to get round this? Should I fill a bug reporting this, and see if a good soul finds a solution? Cheers! --- sílvia miranda Bloc: http://silvia.badall.net _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
