[Xfce-i18n] Possible to translate devel branch of xfce4-panel

Nick Schermer nickschermer at gmail.com
Tue Feb 16 23:53:22 CET 2010


On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Jari Rahkonen
<jari.rahkonen at pp1.inet.fi> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There's a string that cannot be translated to Finnish and probably other
> languages:
>
> #: ../plugins/clock/clock-fuzzy.c:90
> #, c-format
> msgid "half past %s"
>
> The proper way to say "half past five" in Finnish is "puoli kuusi",
> which translates literally to "half six". Can you think of a way to make
> this work?

Yes I think i can make this work with a custom c-format, where you can
choose between %0 (hour name) and %1 (hour+1 name). The english
version would be "half past %0" yours "half %1". Will fix that
tomorrow.

Nick



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