O/H Khaled Hosny έγραψε:
> I'm going to repeat what Djihed said, in Arabic we either use Arabic or
> Arabic-Indic numbers according to locale. Now if we have a string "1" or
> "2" and so on, we won't be able to translate it as people in Egypt (and
> other Arabic counteries to the east of it) want "١" and "٢", while
> others want to keep it "1" and "2".
>
> By using place holder, %d, we can translate it %Id and let the locale
> definition decide which system to be used.
>
Daniel, you put then something like
countdown = 3;
while (countdown>=0) {
/* TRANSLATORS: This is the countdown number when taking the photograph.
* If you leave as is (that is, %d), it will show 3, 2, 1, 0. To
enable to show the numbers in your
* own language, use %Id instead.
*/
show_on_screen("%d");
}
Gettext will take the comment and add it in the PO file for the
translators to see.
Simos
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 07:27:17PM +0200, daniel g. siegel wrote:
>
>> using "1", "2", "3" as strings makes more sense to me, as we wont have
>> any other numbers. i commited it to trunk.
>>
>> thanks!
>>
>> daniel
>>
>> On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 21:31 +0100, Djihed Afifi wrote:
>> <في ر، 23-04-2008 عند 22:29 +0200 ، كتب daniel g. siegel:
>>
>>>> hi!
>>>>
>>>> in cheese we got a nice countdown widget, which just counts down from 3
>>>> to 1 and then shows a small camera. those three strings ("1", "2", and
>>>> "3" are not translated). should i make them translatable?
>>>>
>>>> at least i think, there are some people, who do not use arabic numbers.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> Please work it out using variable placeholders, i.e %d and a comment.
>>>
>>> That way, we, at the Arabic team (we use both Arabic and Hindu numerals
>>> for different locales) could just use %Id and the application will
>>> display the right numerals upon reading the locale.
>>>
>>> If you use 1, 2, etc verbatim we will just copy them and nobody will get
>>> the benefit.
>>>
>>> Djihed
>>>
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