Re: Translations for LSR project

["Christian Rose" <menthos gnome org>]

On 6/7/06, Christian Rose <menthos gnome org> wrote:
> Speaking of specifiers, a thing I wanted to mention is the following
> type of messages:
>
> #: ../src/LSRMain.py:179
> #, python-format
> msgid "A %s with name %s was removed from profile %s"
>
> The second and third specifier should not be a problem here, I think.
> I assume that they are filled with the name and then the name of the
> profile, respectively. If you want to help translators with their
> assumptions, please use translator comments; they would be good to
> have in either case.
>
> Anyway, the problem is the first specifier in this sentence: "A %s with..."
> It seems like a noun will get inserted there. Please do not insert
> nouns into sentences with specifiers. I doubt this will even work with
> English; if the noun was "apple", "A apple with..." would be wrong.
> The problem gets much worse with other languages that may use
> different genders for different nouns, and then prefixes or even whole
> sentences may have to be rewritten depending on the gender of the
> noun.
>
> Please use full sentences instead:
>
> "A parameter with name %s was removed from profile %s"
> "An attribute with name %s was removed from profile %s"
> "A tag with name %s was removed from profile %s"
>
> etc.

I have added this as http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=344471 now.


Christian