[Xfce-i18n] Problematic string in xfdesktop

Brian J. Tarricone kelnos at xfce.org
Sun Apr 30 06:08:02 CEST 2006


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Daichi Kawahata wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 11:58:55 -0300
> Adriano Winter Bess wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
> 
> Boa Tarde,
> 
>> I was updating pt_BR translations for Xfdesktop when I found
>> this (in src/xfdesktop-file-icon.c):
> 
> (snip)
> 
>> The "trick" formatting the string above works for pt_BR, but
>> I'm afraid it may not work fine for some locales. What do you
>> think?
> 
> The string "There was an error %s \"%s\" to \"%s\":" is shown
> like "There was an error moving "file" to "destination"" if
> I'm not wrong.
> 
> Probably it should be:
> 
> "An error happened when "%2$s" is %1$s to "%3$s":"
> 
> in Japanese, so it's okay for me at least.

Either way, if there are potential problems, it's probably safer to just
split it into three separate strings.  What do you think?

	-brian

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