Am Montag 01 November 2010 schrieb Stephan Witt:
> Am 01.11.2010 um 11:07 schrieb Kornel Benko:
> > Am Montag, 1. November 2010 schrieb Stephan Witt:
> >> Am 01.11.2010 um 07:41 schrieb Vincent van Ravesteijn:
> >>>> + if (binfo.empty()) {
> >>>> + docstring fmt = _("%1$s
> >>>> unknown[[InsetNote]]"); + setText(bformat(fmt,
> >>>> from_utf8(name_))); + } else
> >>>
> >>> InsetNote ?
> >>
> >> Sorry. Should be InsetInfo. I mixed it up while trying to fix the
> >> latest compile problems, I'll correct that.
> >>
> >>> Please remember that this should be helpful for the translators to
> >>> correctly translate the unknown part.
> >>>
> >>> And I have no clue what should be unknown here :S..
> >>
> >> (The value of the vcs buffer-info inset indexed by name is empty.
> >> The replacement in this case is e. g. "vcs-author unknown".
> >> The translator has to translate the word "unknown".)
> >> I had to lookup your smiley in some smiley table manually ;-)
> >>
> >> I don't know how to be more helpful to the translator.
> >
> > For instance "%1$s unknown[[vcs-author]]"
> > as that gives a hint to author. In some languages "unknown" depends also
> > on gender of "vcs-author"
>
> vcs-author is on case out of:
> * vcs-revision
> * vcs-tree-revision
> * vcs-author
> * vcs-date
> * vcs-time
> These strings will substitute "%1$s" in front of the word unknown.
> In case of translations depending on gender one has to think of e. g.
> "keyword unknown". But as I understand gettext that's not the aim of the
> context. It's used to make multiple translations for the same string
> depending of the context in interface. We may "abuse" it and make the
> context dynamic:
>
> docstring fmt = _("%1$s unknown[[" + name_ + "]]");
> setText(bformat(fmt, from_utf8(name_)));
>
> But that would not work without some N_() magic and then the translator has
> to provide 5 translations.
>
> Looks like overkill.
Yes, but then why not the full sentence?
docstring fmt = _("vcs-revision unknown")
We need to know what is "unknown" to translate the sentence corectly anyway.
> Stephan
Kornel
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