From: "Nick Schermer" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 4:53 AM To: "Xfce translations mailing list" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Xfce-i18n] Possible to translate devel branch of xfce4-panel
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Jari Rahkonen > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> There's a string that cannot be translated to Finnish and probably other >> languages: >> >> #: ../plugins/clock/clock-fuzzy.c:90 >> #, c-format >> msgid "half past %s" >> >> The proper way to say "half past five" in Finnish is "puoli kuusi", >> which translates literally to "half six". Can you think of a way to make >> this work? > > Yes I think i can make this work with a custom c-format, where you can > choose between %0 (hour name) and %1 (hour+1 name). The english > version would be "half past %0" yours "half %1". Will fix that > tomorrow. > In this configuration it won't be working for Russian: 5:30 = "half <-an-hour> after *sixth* <hour>" <- needs %1, hour+1, an ordinal number 5:55 = "*six* hours without 5 <minutes>" <- needs %1, hour+1, a cardinal number So we need new %2 element which is a string equal to ordinal number for hour+1. _______________________________________________ Xfce-i18n mailing list [email protected] http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce-i18n
