On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 1:16 AM, Vincent Povirk <[email protected]> wrote: >> If proper gettext context is not supported, an old workaround is to use >> >> msgstr "nominative|Queen of Spades" >> >> and then have the programme strip off the "nominative|" part. >> Although this is not considered a very good solution. Also it would >> be necessary with a comment instructing translators to ignore the part >> "nominative|". > > I, er, don't think we can do comments either. >
Okay, I suggest following your suggestion, which was to have three families of strings (quoting): * "the Ace of Hearts" * "Move %s onto the Queen of Spades." * "Move the Ace of Hearts onto an empty foundation slot." except in the last one, I think "Move %s onto an empty foundation slot." is better. You also suggested this in the bugzilla thread, and although there were comments after that, they didn't specifically say that there was anything wrong with doing it that way. It's the simplest possible string substitution, and unless someone specifically says "this is broken in the language", then we have to assume it is alright. In fact I don't even see how this case is dissimilar from case 2). I hope this will make things easier for everyone. Regards Ask _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
