On Mon, 2011-03-28 at 17:54 +0200, dooteo wrote: > Hi all, > > There is a comment into gnome-packagekit which makes me doubt about my > faith in gettext. > > Here is the comment: > > #. TRANSLATOR: "%i %s %i %s" are "%i minutes %i seconds" > #. * Swap order with "%2$s %2$i %1$s %1$i if needed > #. TRANSLATOR: "%i %s %i %s" are "%i hours %i minutes" > #. * Swap order with "%2$s %2$i %1$s %1$i if needed > > but, as far as I know, swap order (if translation needs) should be: > > %4$s %3$i %2$s %1$i (which outputs such as 'seconds number minutes > number' message) > > So, placeholders should be unique. Am I wrong?
Right, the two messages are distinct, but they're merged because they have the same msgid. If your language does something like "# minutes # hours" but then something else like "# (#) minutes (seconds)", this won't work. That's why we have msgctxt. Developers should use it in cases like this. -- Shaun _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
