From kde-i18n-doc  Fri Jul 23 12:16:30 2004
From: Adriaan de Groot <adridg () sci ! kun ! nl>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 12:16:30 +0000
To: kde-i18n-doc
Subject: Re: kolourpaint
Message-Id: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0407231415420.19218-100000 () wn4 ! sci ! kun ! nl>
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On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Federico Zenith wrote:
> >             i18n ("<qt><p>%1 the %2 to"
> >                     " %3x%4 may take a substantial amount of memory."
> >                     " This can reduce system"
> >                     " responsiveness and cause other application resource"
> >                     " problems.</p>"
> >
> >                     "<p>Are you sure want to %5 the"
> >                     " %6?</p></qt>")
>
> This is i18n minefield. It is assuming that all languages have a certain
> syntax, and nothing can be farther from the truth.
> I would say that fixing this issue is important enough to break the freeze.
> Just imagine a language with the accusative case (say German, Russian,
> Arabic, Esperanto): how are they supposed to know, when they translate
> "image", that it will be used as an object an not a subject?

I will produce a patch shortly and post it to -devel and -i18n-doc, so it
can be considered properly.