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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Fixing app typo's (was: Re: KDE 2.2 tagged)
From:       Marc Mutz <Marc.Mutz () uni-bielefeld ! de>
Date:       2001-08-06 15:18:39
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On Monday 06 August 2001 13:51, Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Thomas Diehl wrote:
<snip>
> 4) Fix up string-insertion woes in some strings. For example:
> 	msgid "Send bugs reports to "
> obviously the code will add an email address to the end of that
> string, which may not be grammatically correct for a lot of
> languages.
>
> Which of these could I possibly put into 2.2.1 and which should I
> keep for 3.0?

This is something I'd like to know, too. In libkdenetwork (PGP support 
for Kmail and Knode), we currently return the bogus error message "The 
passphrase is missing" when we're OOM or given a too long passphrase. 
There is also the problem with the messages about whether a given mail 
is signed/encrypted or not and whether the sig is good or bad.
The current code pieces this together like

if (encrypted )
  str += i18n("Encrypted message\n");
if (signed) {
  str += i18n("Message was signed by");
  if ( unknown_key )
    str += i18n("unknown key ID ") + key_id;
  else
    str += key_user_id;
}

(HTML formatting adding omitted) Ugh. This works for English and 
German, but I think there are languages where this piecing together of 
i18n'ed strings results in, um, funny messages.

I'd like to port this to use .arg(), but this would require new 
strings, too.

Marc

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