I'm going to repeat what Djihed said, in Arabic we either use Arabic or
Arabic-Indic numbers according to locale. Now if we have a string "1" or
"2" and so on, we won't be able to translate it as people in Egypt (and
other Arabic counteries to the east of it) want "١" and "٢", while
others want to keep it "1" and "2".
By using place holder, %d, we can translate it %Id and let the locale
definition decide which system to be used.
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 07:27:17PM +0200, daniel g. siegel wrote:
> using "1", "2", "3" as strings makes more sense to me, as we wont have
> any other numbers. i commited it to trunk.
>
> thanks!
>
> daniel
>
> On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 21:31 +0100, Djihed Afifi wrote:
> <في ر، 23-04-2008 عند 22:29 +0200 ، كتب daniel g. siegel:
> > > hi!
> > >
> > > in cheese we got a nice countdown widget, which just counts down from 3
> > > to 1 and then shows a small camera. those three strings ("1", "2", and
> > > "3" are not translated). should i make them translatable?
> > >
> > > at least i think, there are some people, who do not use arabic numbers.
> > >
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > Please work it out using variable placeholders, i.e %d and a comment.
> >
> > That way, we, at the Arabic team (we use both Arabic and Hindu numerals
> > for different locales) could just use %Id and the application will
> > display the right numerals upon reading the locale.
> >
> > If you use 1, 2, etc verbatim we will just copy them and nobody will get
> > the benefit.
> >
> > Djihed
> >
> >
> >
> > > cheers, daniel
> > >
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