From: "Nick Schermer" <nickscher...@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 4:53 AM To: "Xfce translations mailing list" <xfce-i18n@xfce.org> Subject: Re: [Xfce-i18n] Possible to translate devel branch of xfce4-panel
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Jari Rahkonen > <jari.rahko...@pp1.inet.fi> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> There's a string that cannot be translated to Finnish and probably other >> languages: >> >> #: ../plugins/clock/clock-fuzzy.c:90 >> #, c-format >> msgid "half past %s" >> >> The proper way to say "half past five" in Finnish is "puoli kuusi", >> which translates literally to "half six". Can you think of a way to make >> this work? > > Yes I think i can make this work with a custom c-format, where you can > choose between %0 (hour name) and %1 (hour+1 name). The english > version would be "half past %0" yours "half %1". Will fix that > tomorrow. > Also "%1 o'clock" strings should be realized via gettextn to get correct multiple plural forms for languages with >1 plural. _______________________________________________ Xfce-i18n mailing list Xfce-i18n@xfce.org http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce-i18n
