Re: Gnome-games and scheme

[Christian Rose <menthos gnome org>]

tor 2003-05-22 klockan 11.59 skrev Callum McKenzie:
> Strings from within the scheme code are now translated, this includes a
> few strings that are like C printf strings, but not quite. For example
> 
> "~a of ~a"
> 
> the ~a construct is directly equivalent to the %s in printf.
> In this case the two ~a will be filled in with Queen and hearts
> to give "Queen of hearts".

Ouch!
Such a design isn't localizable in many languages. For example, in
Swedish "queen of hearts" is called "hjärter dam".
"Dam av hjärter" or even "hjärter av dam" doesn't make sense.

Please allow for these terms to be fully translated in their own,
instead of piecewise translation that won't work in many languages. So
you would have:

msgid "Queeen of hearts"

msgid "King of hearts"
...
etc

The reasons for not splitting sentences into several messages should be
explained on
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/tutorials/gnome-i18n/developer.html#split-sentences.


Christian