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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: =?utf-8?q?Trojit=C3=A1_localization?= problems
From:       Kevin Krammer <krammer () kde ! org>
Date:       2013-02-27 19:46:27
Message-ID: 201302272046.32307.krammer () kde ! org
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On Wednesday, 2013-02-27, Yuri Chornoivan wrote:
> написане Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:25:32 +0200, Albert Astals Cid
> 
> <aacid@kde.org>:
> > El Dimarts, 26 de febrer de 2013, a les 08:47:22, Yuri Chornoivan va

> >> 2. Qt has hardcoded limit of plural forms for Ukrainian (uk_UA, 3 forms)
> >> and Ukrainian KDE has 4 forms. This was not a problem before as all
> >> translation tools with hardcoded plural counter (Launchpad, Transifex,
> >> Virtaal) just skip the fourth form that results in ugly but visible
> >> translations.
> >> 
> >> Qt's lconvert refuses to do so: "Removed plural forms as the target
> >> language has less forms." So all messages with plural forms look
> >> untranslated.
> >> 
> >> Is it possible to limit plural forms just for the trojita_common.po to 3
> >> manually without overrun by scripty?
> > 
> > Adding a manual exception to scripty, but doesn't sound like a good
> > thing to
> > me. Any chance you can convince the Qt guys 4 plurals is better?
> 
> Very, very unlikely. They cannot enable non-Latin accelerators for my
> language for more than three years with a ready to use patch. There must
> be supernova burst near the Sun to make them change something in
> localization, but it would make the Earth lifeless. :'(

There has been quite some change in how patches are treated since the change 
over to the open governance project control.
Previous any patch had to be basically rewritten to ensure licencing cleaness, 
now with the Qt project CLA in place that is no longer necessary.

Also some module and section maintainers have changes, new people could be 
more open to fixes.

i18n and l10n now also hits more people, e.g. with BlackBerry10 using the Qt 
as well.

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring

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