Re: translating numbers

[Simos Xenitellis <simos lists googlemail com>]

O/H daniel g. siegel έγραψε:
> oh.. i got you wrong ;)
>
> its fixed now in svn
>   
http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/cheese/trunk/src/cheese-countdown.c?r1=685&r2=687&sortby=date

Thanks!

Another issue that I notice is that you specify the font "Bitstream 
Charter", as the font for the countdown text. This font supports Latin 
characters only. If the numbers are in a different language, typical 
font substitution will take place so it should work in this specific 
case. However, in the general case it is not a good idea.

An alternative is to use "Sans" (or "Serif"), which are virtual fonts, 
and pick the appropriate font explicitly through the configuration files 
in /etc/fonts/conf.d/
For example, the "serif" font for Thai characters is the Norasi font 
(that's what my Ubuntu configuration files say).

Hope this helps,
Simos
> 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
> > > >