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PostPosted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 7:49 pm 
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Hi,

Is it possible to suggest new ways of handling text for the translations? I just did the Norwegian one, and it would have been heaps easier if I had something like: "Will air on %s6". Working with stuff like "Will air on" + "the day after tomorrow" and such is hard as some languages don't have good translations for some strings. Also, it would be a lot easier to see what the outcome of the translation would be.

Example: In Norwegian, we don't use capital letters for week days (unless they start the sentence). One of the items to translate was "Wednesday", which made me realize I had to check the whole program to see if I found any "Onsdag"s in the middle of sentences, which would have been an error.

See my point?


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Good suggestion. There is some history here, we just started translating the way it is now, but it turns to be quite a hassle. Some strings are made up of three parts just because we need to insert two variables. And coding with it is a pain in the ass too, we always forget spaces and other signs.
I will add it to the roadmap for 0.98.

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Cool! Just make sure you make the table of strings that will be replaced, and be sure to include, for %s, %s (lower case first letter), %S (capital first letter), %s! (string.toLowerCase) and %S! (string.toUpperCase. Should be pretty straight forward to parse that and make it a blast to translate into just about any language.


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