From kde-i18n-doc  Wed Feb 25 00:18:45 2009
From: Chusslove Illich <caslav.ilic () gmx ! net>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:18:45 +0000
To: kde-i18n-doc
Subject: Re: usage of &kappname; in documentation
Message-Id: <200902250118.48062.caslav.ilic () gmx ! net>
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> [: Frederik Schwarzer :]
> Yesterday I changed some application entiries to &kappname; in kdegames
> and received feedback from Marek Laane, the Estonian translator. He said
> that using &kappname; makes translation for some languages more difficult.
> So I reverted the change for that moment. Since I have some difficulties
> following his argument, I want to ask a more broader audience (yes, you)
> about possible pitfalls.

(I'm afraid I'm just going to reiterate what Marek might have said,
nevertheless...)

The problem for declination-heavy languages is the following. When I see
"...of Okular..." I will translate it in my language as "...Okulara...",
where the "of" preposition is replaced with masculine genitive ending -a.
Or, "...with Okular..." becomes "...Okularom...", etc. Furthermore, when the
name is feminine-like, the root and endings change, so e.g. "...of
Okteta..." becomes "...Oktete..." (-a stripped, -e added).

=46or this reason in my language we completely do away with entities when
translating documentation; when I see "...of &okteta;..." I replace it with
"...Oktete...", no entity there. If, however, the the proper name is masked
as "...&kappname;..." then I have to check what it actually is, in order to
know what to replace it with. This check should waste little time overall,
but there's a much more serious issue: if the name changes, I don't get a
fuzzy in PO file, and thus don't get signalled that I should modify the
translation.

This is basically the same problem as "word puzzles" in UI messages.

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