Re: [Synaptic-devel] Language issue regarding the use of Gettext

[Michael Vogt]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 12:03:09AM +0200, Jean-Michel POURE wrote:
> Le Lundi 15 Septembre 2003 23:29, Michael Vogt a écrit :
> > I'm very happy that you plan help translations into more languages and
> > I'll provide every support I can. If you find more problems beside
> > indexcopy.cc, just let me know, but I'm not aware of more right now.
> 
> OK, I just had a quick look.

Thanks. 

> 1) "....Date" does not work in RTL languagues like Arabic, Persian, Hebrew. 
> Find another way to indent text.

Fixed. 
 
> 2) ": will be installed". Should be "%s: will be installed" or "%d: will be 
> installed". This is an RTL question again.
> 
> The rule is to never build incomplete sentences or "agreegate" them using C. 
> There are several entries like 2).

I changed all of those I found for now. 

> 3) ": will be upgraded to". The beginning and the end of the sentence are 
> missing. Should sort of "%s: will be upgraded to %s".

Fixed. 

> 4) "Package that" fails to translate in several languages. See my last email. 
> There is no other issue but to write "Package that fail: %s", "Package that 
> succeed: %s", etc... As many times as choices. There is no turnaround.

Sorry, I don't know what exactly you are refering to. 
Can you please help me here? 

I also changed the status line in the mainWindow. It should be i18n
friendlier now. 

> The rest seems OK, but I will only be able to find the real problems during 
> the French translation and testing. A quick look is not enough. 

Fine. As you probably already noticed, I'm a i18n novice. But I'm
willing to change the code to make it better suited. But I need help
here :) 
 
> Could you please fix these issues and will do a complete testing afterwards. 
> This would be nice! Thanks in advance, I love Synaptic.

Most (only #4 is missing so far) is fixed in the subversion tree. Do
you rather like to use this tree or shall I put a additional tarball
with those fixes online?

Thanks a lot for your effort. I think we can take synaptic together to
a new i18n level :)

bye,
 Michael