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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Fwd: Re: flashkard and i18n
From:       Scott Wheeler <scott () slackorama ! net>
Date:       2002-10-29 10:32:28
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Hmm, ok, kde-18n is aparently dead... Trying again... 
 
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Moin Thorten!            
            
> I'm the German translator for the kdeedu module and I just translated          
> the GUI of flashkard. I found some problems and I hope, that you will do your  
> best to fix them as fast as you can. ;-))            
           
Well, my first question is, how?  I think changing the strings at this point would cause a 
problem for all of the other translation teams. 
           
> Firstly, you used "i18n("Back")" for example in the right column in the        
> entry view. The problem is, that this string "Back" is translated in           
> kdelibs.po,  but for a different meaning (the opposite of "Forward"). So in 
> German everywhere, where you used i18n("Back"), you can read the wrong            
> translation (from kdelibs.po).            
           
I presume that there is a way to do a "local override"?  I'm sorry for my ignorance on the           
translation process, but I guessed that our translation system provides some way to          
accomodate homonyms.  Obviously here I want back to be the opposite of front...  
 
> Secondly, some strings in datawidget.cpp are not translateable (e.g.           
> "Add Card", "Delete Card", "Update Card").         
         
Hmm, I guess I really don't understand the issue here.  Would for instance "löschen Karte" or 
"löschen Leselernkarte" (or some other concatenation of "lernen" and "Karte") not work?   If 
needed, in this case "Card" could be substituted for the translation of "item" for translations  
where this is helpful. 
 
Again, my main question is how to fix this.  Have any other translaters run into problems with   
these strings?   
  
Cheers,   
   
-Scott  
  
(If you're replying to the list, please CC me on responces.)  
 
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