Hi Kallinen, I can not but agree with you.
2013/12/2 Kallinen Pasi <[email protected]>: > 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. > > > -- > Ystävällisin terveisin > > Pasi Kallinen > ICT-asiantuntija > > p. 0400-139747 > [email protected] > Länsikatu 15 > 80110 Joensuu > > Pohjois-Karjalan Tietotekniikkakeskus Oy - www.pttk.fi > _______________________________________________ > Koha-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel > website : http://www.koha-community.org/ > git : http://git.koha-community.org/ > bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/ -- Wishing you all the best. . . . Anthony Mao 毛慶禎 ＋886 2 29052334 (voice) + 886 2 29017405 (FAX) _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
