Public bug reported:
Hi,
while translating software-center in Ubuntu for Oneiric, I found some
strings that are inconsistent, resulting in duplicated translation
messages, or strings that are not really clear from an i18n/l10n point
of view.
The inconsistent strings follows:
Try <a href="search-unsupported:">the %(amount)d item that matches</a> in
software not maintained by Canonical.
Try <a href="search-unsupported:">the %(amount)d items that match</a> in
software not maintained by Canonical.
Try <a href="search-unsupported:">the %(amount)d item that matches</a> in
software not maintained by Canonical
Try <a href="search-unsupported:">the %(amount)d items that match</a> in
software not maintained by Canonical
The latter are located in:
../softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/widgets/searchaid.py
The former in:
../softwarecenter/ui/gtk/softwarepane.py
I don't know which one is the blessed way of ending the sentence, but having
only one could be interesting.
Also, on similar strings, I noticed that the href in one case ended with a
slash "/" while here with the colon ":". I report the strings for reference:
Try <a href="search-parent/">the item in %(category)s</a> that matches
Try <a href="search-parent/">the %(n)d items in %(category)s</a> that match
That also are similar to these:
Try <a href="search-parent:">the item in %(category)s</a> that matches.
Try <a href="search-parent:">the %(n)d items in %(category)s</a> that match.
Apart from the fullstop at the end of the sentence and the colon instead
of the slash.
The not so clear strings are as follows:
ETA: %s (located in ../softwarecenter/ui/gtk/pendingview.py)
Non-tech people might don't even know what that acronym stands for.
Modify Your %s Review (located in various files)
Here it could be interesting to have a "named" variable or a translator
comments, since in many languages that %s could be positioned in
different parts of the sentence based on what will be substituted with
it.
No items match %s%s%s (located in
../softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/widgets/searchaid.py)
No items in %s match %s%s%s (located in
../softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/widgets/searchaid.py)
Here the triple %s will be substituted with: "%s" (using the Uniceod char for
the double quote)
Many languages might use different double quotes rather than the hard coded
Unicode ones. I don't know if that has been done for some specific reasons, but
it could be interesting to have those quotes directly in the translatable
string.
I apologise for not proposing a patch for all of this now, but I would
like to understand if any of those was intentional or if they can be
fix.
Thank you for your attention.
Ciao.
** Affects: ubuntu-translations
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Affects: software-center (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: ubuntu-translations
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Summary changed:
- Inconsistent or not clear string for l10n
+ Inconsistent or not clear strings for l10n
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