Hello.
I've been translating Koha to Finnish for a bit, and I'm really starting to
hate some of the automagically generated msgid's.
1) String concatenation is BAD.
For example, this line of code:
var disabledForCurrent = _("Disabled for") + ' ' + $branch;
turns into this translatable string:
msgid "Disabled for"
For some languages this is very hard to translate without sounding stupid or
just plain wrong. jQuery has some string placeholder support for javascript, so
Koha really should be using those instead!
The example above would turn into:
var disabledForCurrent = _("Disabled for {0}");
msgid "Disabled for {0}"
2) Consistency would be good.
msgid "EAN:"
msgid "EAN: "
msgid "EAN :"
3) Sentences should not be cut in pieces.
msgid "Please"
msgid "upload"
msgid "one."
The "upload"-text is a link in the sentence. Ideally this should be:
msgid "Please %supload%s one."
4) Is it a verb or a noun?
msgid "Copy"
5) The wiki-like help texts should be in separate po-file. The help texts
inflate the staff UI po-file immensely, and the help translation is not quite
as critical as the UI. Having all the help texts interspersed between all the
actually important strings is irritating.
6) Translation is not programming. Replace all Template Toolkit code with
placeholders.
For example
msgid "Cancel [% IF TransferWhenCancelAllWaitingHolds %]and Transfer [% END
%]All"
and
msgid "Cancel hold and return to : [% overloo.branchname %]"
7) Exclude URLs. Those are not content that should be translatable.
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Ystävällisin terveisin
Pasi Kallinen
ICT-asiantuntija
p. 0400-139747
[email protected]
Länsikatu 15
80110 Joensuu
Pohjois-Karjalan Tietotekniikkakeskus Oy - www.pttk.fi
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