Word puzzle in Elisa

[Albert Astals Cid]

El dilluns, 31 d’agost de 2020, a les 22:40:41 CEST, Matthieu Gallien va escriure:
> Hello,
> 
> On dimanche 30 août 2020 23:03:27 CEST Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > El diumenge, 30 d’agost de 2020, a les 21:10:04 CEST, Carson Black va 
> escriure:
> > > Hey, could you CC the Elisa mailing list about this?
> > 
> > You can also use the CC as well as anyone else, but here, I'll do it for
> > you.
> > > I brought this up to the guy who added the string in question and he can't
> > > understand why this is problematic for translation.
> > 
> > Just ask Matthieu as a French speaker he'll be able to tell you that you
> > can't translate that correctly.
> > 
> > Example:
> > https://translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=en&tl=fr&text=No%20s
> > ong%20found
> > https://translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=en&tl=fr&text=No%20
> > album%20found
> > 
> > Do you do "Aucune %1 trouvée" or "Aucun %1 trouvé"? Which of the
> > translations you want to be wrong?
> 
> This is true and I never realized that when reviewing this change. Sorry for 
> that.
> 
> > Cheers,
> >   Albert
> > 
> > > Also, may be possible that none of the Elisa devs are here.
> 
> I am not subscribed to kde-i18n-doc list. Please, if you have issues with 
> translations in a project where I contribute, do not hesitate to ask me. I am 
> more than happy to help.
> 
> > > Thanks,
> > > -- Carson Black [ Jan Blackquill ]
> > > 
> > > Karl Ove Hufthammer <karl at huftis.org> schrieb am So., 30. Aug. 2020, 
> 13:54:
> > > > The following word puzzle is found in Elisa
> > > > 
> > > > msgctxt "e.g. 'no artists found' or 'no albums found'"
> > > > msgid "No %1 found"
> > > > 
> > > > Can somebody fix it?
> 
> I am not sure what is the best way to fix that. I can only think of having the 
> different sentences as a whole in i18n calls: i18n("no artists found") or 
> i18n("no albums found"). We would have to modify the code to handle that 
> properly.
> 
> Is this something that would be an acceptable solution ?

Yes, that's the most straightforward solution :) (Assuming we're speaking of like 5 strings not 500 :D)

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> > > > 
> > > > --
> > > > Karl Ove Hufthammer
> > 
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