URL:
<http://gna.org/patch/?7700>
Summary: Special msgid to let translators control
capitalisation, etc
Project: Freeciv
Submitted by: jtn
Submitted on: Sat 17 Sep 2016 03:01:29 PM BST
Category: None
Priority: 5 - Normal
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Originator Email:
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Planned Release: 2.6.0, 3.0.0
Contains string changes: Yes
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Details:
Patch #3028 hardcoded a behaviour in the Freeciv code that the Finnish locale
triggers certain messages to have their initial letter capitalised.
We could remove the hardcoding and let other translators opt in to this by
having a special msgid in whose msgstr translators can specify which such
magic behaviours they want. Freeciv would read this and act on it, instead of
looking at the locale name.
#. TRANS: not a regular string; controls special localization behaviors.
#. This is a comma-separated set of tokens that enable special
#. handling of strings. The values you can currently specify are:
#. - autocap: uppercase first letter of notify messages
#. - inflector: enable language engine that automatically solves
#. all problems of highly inflected languages (to be implemented)
#. If left blank or set to "-", standard behavior will be used.
msgid "?L10N_CONTROL:"
msgstr "autocap"
Is there some reason why this would be a terrible idea?
Other thoughts:
* Place it at the top of core .po files
* Make sure there's a non-empty value that means "do nothing", so that it
doesn't keep showing up in fuzzies
* I considered including the list of possible options in the msgid, so
translators get to know when there's a new one, but that means that the
behaviour gets turned off in the meantime. An alternative approach would be to
have a new msgid per option rather than a comma-separated string (I think I
prefer this, on reflection).
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