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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: kolourpaint
From:       Clarence Dang <dang () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-07-23 13:07:01
Message-ID: 200407232307.01283.dang () kde ! org
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Hi,

Sorry about the awful strings.  If you give me all the bad strings, I can post 
a patch here to fix all of them.  In the meantime, I'll go through the .pot 
file.

Thanks,
Clarence

On Friday 23 July 2004 14:16, Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> 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.
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