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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Re: Puzzle or not
From:       Burkhard =?ISO-8859-1?Q?L=FCck?= <lueck () hube-lueck ! de>
Date:       2013-05-07 20:34:42
Message-ID: 11900000.AK9LxJ7oi8 () parodia
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Am Dienstag, 7. Mai 2013, 19:17:04 schrieb Albert Astals Cid:
> El Dimarts, 7 de maig de 2013, a les 10:15:25, Aurélien Gâteau va escriure:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am reworking the text of KWin "terminate application" dialog. So far,
> > the
> > 
> > text I have come up with this:
> >   <para><b>Window "%2" is not responding.</b></para>
> >   <para>%1. Do you wish to terminate this application?</para>
> >   <para><warning>Terminating the application will close all of its child
> > 
> > windows. Any unsaved data will be lost.</warning></para>
> > 
> > Where %1 is a string translated separately. If the application is running
> > on> 
> > the local machine, the string is:
> >   This window belongs to application <application>%1</application>
> > 
> > If the application is running on a remote host, the string becomes:
> >   This window belongs to application <application>%1</application>,
> >   running
> > 
> > on host %2
> > 
> > Assuming I add a comment explaining what "%1" is in the first string, is
> > it
> > OK to split out a sentence of a dialog text like this or is it considered
> > "word puzzle"?
> 
> I'd say that since this are basically separate sentences so it's ok, but not
> that i'm an specialist in "strange" languages on the other hand.
> 
German language has no problems with "puzzles" of whole sentences here too, 
but Yuri, Chusslove, etc ..., the guys with "strange" languages should have 
the last word.

-- 
Burkhard Lück

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