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

Jari Rahkonen jari.rahkonen at pp1.inet.fi
Wed Feb 17 10:23:26 CET 2010


On 17.02.2010 00:53, Nick Schermer wrote:
> 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

Thanks. Seems like a great solution.

- Jari



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