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List:       kstars-devel
Subject:    Re: [Kstars-devel] KDE/kdeedu/kstars/kstars/tools
From:       Burkhard =?iso-8859-1?q?L=FCck?= <lueck () hube-lueck ! de>
Date:       2009-10-10 17:21:46
Message-ID: 200910101921.46977.lueck () hube-lueck ! de
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Am Samstag 10 Oktober 2009 16:19:41 schrieb Prakash Mohan:
> > From a translators pov this seems to be a strange usage of i18np. How
> > should this be translated properly?
> >
> > Can you please explain?
> > Please give an example of a singular and plural string.
> 
> I think there seems to a mistake in the i18np call here. IIUC we're
> supposed to check for the number of hours as a 'number' and not a
> 'string'. Will that help running the translations smoothly?
> 

Afaik there are 5 different states in this string, list them here with the 
german wording translated literally to english:

1) Night Duration: <=00:00 
"Object does not set" or "No set" or "Always above horizon"

2) Night Duration: 00:yy with 01 < yy < 60
"yy minutes"

3) Night Duration: 01:yy
"01 hour 01 minute" + "01 hour yy minutes"
(singular/singular + singular/plural)

4) Night Duration: xx:yy with xx > 1
"xx hours 01 minute" + "xx hours yy minutes"
(plural/singular + plural/plural)

5) Night Duration: >= 24:00
"Object does not rise" or "No rise" or "Always below horizon"

But in any case german it not the only language in kde, other may have 
different needs for a good translation.
So please mail to the translators list kde-i18n-doc@kde.org and ask how to do 
this properly.

Btw playing with this dialog in trunk I see these strange values:
Kiruna, Sweden, Fri 03.July 2009
Sunrise: does not rise
Sunset: does not rise
Night Duration: 24:00 hours

That is apparently wrong.

-- 
Burkhard Lück
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