oh.. i got you wrong ;)
its fixed now in svn
thanks!
On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 21:34 +0300, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> 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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