Re: gnome-doc-utils strings (was Re: New module : GNOME Power Manager)

2005-07-14 Thread Yavor Doganov
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 14:04:07 +0930, Clytie Siddall wrote: > It is essential to know the purpose of the string. Background like: > ___ > Type: menu item > Function: brings up a dialogue which allows the user to modify > currently-highlighted text > Original: Edit > ___ >

Re: gnome-doc-utils strings (was Re: New module : GNOME Power Manager)

2005-07-13 Thread Clytie Siddall
On 13/07/2005, at 4:21 PM, Shaun McCance wrote: If we just had to worry about masculine/feminine/mixed, this would be an easily solvable problem. But this Vietnamese social status stuff could make things interesting. But hey, interesting problems are fun problems. What my language really ne

gnome-doc-utils strings (was Re: New module : GNOME Power Manager)

2005-07-12 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 00:39 +0200, Hendrik Brandt wrote: > "%i minute" "%i hour" "%i second" (all singular) > This is a common mistake. For a word in singular it's better to write > e.g. "1 minute", so a translator can decide how to translate. In German > for example "1 minute" will almost translat