Re: Translation in gnome-power-manager

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Le mercredi 27 août 2008, à 23:08 +0200, Claude Paroz a écrit :
> Hi all,
> 
> Before entering a bug in gnome-power-manager, I'd just like to know the
> correct way to translate this (from gpm-cell.c):
> 
> 	if (unit->is_present == FALSE) {
> 		g_string_append_printf (details, "<b>%s:</b> %s\n", _("Status"),
> _("Missing"));
> 	} else if (gpm_cell_unit_is_charged (unit)) {
> 		g_string_append_printf (details, "<b>%s:</b> %s\n", _("Status"),
> _("Charged"));
> 	} else if (unit->is_charging) {
> 		g_string_append_printf (details, "<b>%s:</b> %s\n", _("Status"),
> _("Charging"));
> 	} else if (unit->is_discharging) {
> 		g_string_append_printf (details, "<b>%s:</b> %s\n", _("Status"),
> _("Discharging"));
> 
> I think the idea was to remove markup for translators, which is a good
> thing per se, but in this case, I'm afraid it's unavoidable to include
> the markup inside the strings, to give something like :
> 
>   g_string_append (details, _("<b>Status:</b> Missing\n"));
> 
> In French, it would be translatable if the ":" were in the translated
> strings:
> 
>   g_string_append_printf (details, "<b>%s</b> %s\n", _("Status:"),
> _("Missing"));
> 
> But I think this is not acceptable for LTR languages, right ?

Looks wrong to me, indeed.

Vincent

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