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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    String reuse in KBabel
From:       Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre () nbi ! dk>
Date:       2001-06-29 14:34:53
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The translation database configuration dialog seems to reuse
the menu entry text for the same dialog as a _part_ of the
dialog title.

It is of course very clever. The message ID is "Configure
dictionary %1", and "%1" is substituted with the text from
the corresponding menu entry.

But there are at least two problems:

 1) I can't define an accelerator key for those menu
    entries.
 2) In some languages the rules about when to capitalise
    words and when not to capitalise words, will make either
    the menu entry or the dialog title incorrect.
 3) It is not unheard of, that the words for "compendium"
    and "database" have different genders, and thus would
    need slightly differently formulated surrounding texts.

Point number one is my real problem.

Point number two can be handled with a somewhat ugly
construction with quotation marks ("Set \"%1\" upp") if I
skip the menu accelerators.

Point number three is not valid in this case (WRT Faroese).

Jacob (member of the officially not-existing Faroese translation team)
-- 
"Alle telnet-dæmoner bør aflives"

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