Hi,
There is a widespread problem across many text strings to be translated: some
isolated
words are gender invariable in English, but not in many languages.
For example, let's consider this case of a cascade menu:
New
Folder
File
In Spanish (as well as in many languages), "new" is
Hello!
In https://gitlab.com/abstractsoftware/abstract-games/-/issues/1, we were
invited to add the Abstract Games suite into the KDE Applications, and of
course we couldn't refuse!
We are a small team of two, who would prefer to remain anonymous if that's OK,
and we are hosted on free software
On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 12:36 PM Eloy Cuadra wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> There is a widespread problem across many text strings to be translated: some
> isolated words are gender invariable in English, but not in many languages.
>
> For example, let's consider this case of a cascade menu:
>
> New
>
>
> Hi,
Hi!
> It would be highly desirable that all the words that appear isolated had a
> context to ease the
> task of the translators. For all these words, I would advise against using
> i18n() and would
> prefer using i18nc() in source code (or using disambiguation comments in UI
> files).
Am Samstag, 2. Mai 2020, 13:11:55 CEST schrieb Johan Ouwerkerk:
> On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 12:36 PM Eloy Cuadra wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > There is a widespread problem across many text strings to be translated:
> > some isolated words are gender invariable in English, but not in many
> > languages.>
> On 2 May 2020 12:02 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> And yes, most of the code written in recent years seems to have missed to add
> context in the i18n calls. The older among us have failed here to properly
> teach the new generations of contributors about good i18n code. :) Time to
> impro
On zaterdag 2 mei 2020 14:46:12 CEST David Hurka wrote:
> > On 2 May 2020 12:02 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> > And yes, most of the code written in recent years seems to have missed to
> > add
> > context in the i18n calls. The older among us have failed here to properly
> > teach the new
On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 10:14 PM Ben Cooksley wrote:
> On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 6:17 AM Alexander Potashev
> wrote:
> > I have a similar use case. Sometimes I need to share a URL to a
> > project. For this purpose I used to share e.g.
> > https://cgit.kde.org/releaseme.git/about
> >
> > Does this m
El dissabte, 2 de maig de 2020, a les 13:11:55 CEST, Johan Ouwerkerk va
escriure:
> On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 12:36 PM Eloy Cuadra wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > There is a widespread problem across many text strings to be translated:
> > some isolated words are gender invariable in English, but not in
>>> On 2 May 2020, at 08:12, Johan Ouwerkerk wrote:
>> On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 12:36 PM Eloy Cuadra wrote:
>> Hi,
>> There is a widespread problem across many text strings to be translated:
>> some isolated words are gender invariable in English, but not in many
>> languages.
>> For example,
El dissabte, 2 de maig de 2020, a les 16:08:26 CEST, Albert Astals Cid va
escriure:
> El dissabte, 2 de maig de 2020, a les 13:11:55 CEST, Johan Ouwerkerk va
> escriure:
> > On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 12:36 PM Eloy Cuadra wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > There is a widespread problem across many t
On Samstag, 2. Mai 2020 14:46:12 CEST David Hurka wrote:
> Yes, I am suggesting to forbid i18n() without c.
For longer strings, the version without context is usually fine. This will
only lead to people writing empty or nondescript comments, starting a habit
that is worse than the current behavi
Hi all,
Sorry for late response, but project "cutehmi" fits into "sdk" category
better than "applications" (technically it's a framework, but I guess
"frameorks" is reserved for well integrated KDE Frameworks).
Speaking generally on subject, categorization is always problematic.
Categories o
On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 2:13 AM Michał Policht wrote:
>
> Hi all,
Hi Michal,
>
> Sorry for late response, but project "cutehmi" fits into "sdk" category
> better than "applications" (technically it's a framework, but I guess
> "frameorks" is reserved for well integrated KDE Frameworks).
I have n
On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 09:25:18AM -0400, Allen Winter wrote:
> On Thursday, April 30, 2020 5:15:43 PM EDT Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > El dijous, 30 d’abril de 2020, a les 21:31:02 CEST, Ben Cooksley va
> > escriure:
> > > On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 6:04 AM Ivan Čukić wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > We hav
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