From kde-devel  Tue Jun 01 19:50:54 2021
From: =?UTF-8?Q?Nicol=C3=A1s_Alvarez?= <nicolas.alvarez () gmail ! com>
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2021 19:50:54 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Issue with translation in Dolphin
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El mar, 1 de jun. de 2021 a la(s) 03:16, Johnny Jazeix
(jazeix@gmail.com) escribi=C3=B3:
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>
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> Le lun. 31 mai 2021 =C3=A0 21:47, Albert Astals Cid <aacid@kde.org> a =C3=
=A9crit :
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>> El dilluns, 31 de maig de 2021, a les 21:22:52 (CEST), Johnny Jazeix va =
escriure:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > French translation team received a bug (
>> > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D437856) for a translation issue=
 within
>> > Dolphin.
>> >
>> > The issue resides in this code:
>> > https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/blob/master/src/kitemviews/kfi=
leitemmodel.cpp#L2182-2194
>> > where we expect "'Earlier on' MMMM, yyyy" to be translated with someth=
ing
>> > like "'translated text' MMMM, yyyy".
>> >
>> > In French, we have translated this single quote to French guillemets "=
=C2=AB
>> > translated text =C2=BB MMMM, yyyy".
>> >
>> > Looking at the code, can you confirm it should be kept with single quo=
tes
>> > instead? If yes, does having a translator comment would help avoiding =
the
>> > issue?
>>
>> Yes, the code needs ' since it's passed to QDateTime::toString.
>>
>> The quotes are not shown to the user, they are used to mark a section as=
 "this is text, just pass it though, don't try to do MMM or yyyy substituti=
on here".
>>
>
> Thanks for confirming, I've updated it.
>
>> Given that the translation comment is already already very long, what wo=
uld you suggest?
>>
>
> "Keep the words between single quotes in single quotes"? I'm not sure if =
French is an exception here on changing the single quotes sometimes to guil=
lemets. If this is the only times we have a bug filled for it, maybe it's n=
ot needed to add a new comment.

Maybe this should use a comment instead of the translation context,
since it's getting so long?
https://api.kde.org/frameworks/ki18n/html/prg_guide.html#ctxt_extc

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