IMHO the comments in the POT are not explicit enough for a translator to understand their "meta" nature. They should have examples. Also the phrase could be made to stand out better. Maybe a common prefix, and use all upper-case? "PO_LANGUAGE_NAME" might alert the translator better than "Language-Name" which looks like any regular phrase:
#: TRANSLATORS: Put in the name of your language, NOT the translation of "language name". E.g. "Español" or "Русский". msgid "PO_LANGUAGE_NAME" And since Etoys does not use a single font like Scratch does, why do we try to mimic it? - Bert - Am 02.09.2008 um 02:02 schrieb Yoshiki Ohshima: > Thank you, Sayamindu, > > By the way, while trying to copy the "extra information" from > Scratch to Etoys, I found that some translators translated the > keyword, when they are supposed to provide the information. For > example, Linux-Font in French for Scratch is translated, > "Fonte-Linux", and "Language-Name" in Kreyol is "Lang-Non", Linux-Font > for Turkish is "linux yaz? tipi", etc. (I pasted the "Language-Name" > entry from Arabic, but not sure what it actually says.) I saw bunch > of language names in Scratch and all looked ok so I was assuming the > data on Pootle is ok, too... > > So, folk, please visit these entries and read the comments. Thank > you! > > -- Yoshiki > > At Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:46:23 +0530, > Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: >> >> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 3:49 AM, Yoshiki Ohshima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> We've added some mechanism to Etoys so that you can (indirectly) >>> specify the rendering mechanism for text in Etoys. >>> >>> Soon an few entries will show up on the Pootle server, and one of >>> these is "Linux-Font". If you think your language should be >>> rendered >>> with Pango, specify the prefered font name as the translation. >>> Or, if >>> you think it is not necessary, leave it blank. >>> >>> The font name doesn't have to exact; as long as the entry is not >>> empty, the Etoys system asks Pango to render text. Likewise, please >>> provide the language name in the language for "Language-Name". It >>> will be displayed in the language chooser menu. >>> >>> The entries are the same as Scratch's; so I will copy-and-paste from >>> Scratch's to Etoys as a default. >>> >>> Sayamindu, could you run the script that push stuff from git to >>> Pootle, if the next 24 hour cycle is not too close? >>> >> >> >> Done. >> >> Thanks, >> Sayamindu >> >> >> -- >> Sayamindu Dasgupta >> [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
