+++ Duncan Collis [2015-02-09 11:33 +0800]: > Hi, > > I've been assisting with a translation of Therion into Simplified > Chinese together with Zhang Yuanhai of the Institute of Karst Geology > in Guilin. I've got a few questions about some of the text
[ignoring most of it as I don't know the answers] > therion: \nerror opening therion.log file\n > What is '\n' ? Some translations have /n instead - is this a mistake > or are they different? \n is a (C language representation of a) newline character. /n would be wrong SFAIK. > therion: Undo %s > What is '%s' ? Is the space before it important? %s is the C language representation for 'insert string here', so yes the space is importat as it will get converted into "Undo delete point" or somesuch (%s gets replaced by "delete point" in this case) > therion: To set file encoding, type encoding name and press <Change> button > I can't find a corresponding text for the Change button. Which is it? Ah you mean that if "Change" is a button in the UI, then it should be translatable text? > > therion: theme basic-symbols > therion: theme passage-fills > therion: theme speleothems > therion: theme equipement > How are these used? And if that's english why is "equipement" spelt Frenchly? Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/
