KDE4 proposal: Paths in i18n strings

[Jarosław Staniek]

Frans Englich wrote:

> On Monday 03 July 2006 08:00, Jarosław Staniek wrote:
>> Hello,
>> This is a result of my discussion with Chusslove Illich
>> <caslav.ilic at gmx.net> on paths for i18n strings:
>>
>> http://kexi-project.org/wiki/wikiview/index.php?KDE4TODOs_PathsInI18n
> 
> Nice. I have been thinking about this as well, although from a slightly
> different perspective:
> 
> In many scenarios, especially the more technical ones, one needs to
> display identifiers and names in i18n'd text. My big issue with doing that
> is consistency. Should one use double quotes around the terms? Or single
> quotes? No quotes at all? Etc.
> 
> To make KLocalizedString aware of types like QDir seems to solve the
> problem of paths, but how does one achieve the same improvement for other
> strings? What is it people generally inserting with %N, and what can be
> done for making it consistent?
> 
> I'm thinking of something like an enum that tells what kind of "role"
> or "type" a certain insert-string has. Although I don't know how that
> should play together with the i18n calls.

For these cases what about something as simple as:  %'N' ? If only translators 
can stand "User '%1' joines", they'd most likely stand "User %'1' joined" as 
well (?)

The string would then be so nicely displayed as "Dołączył użytkownik ,,%1''" 
in Polish :)  (note ,,'' characters)

As an option, translators would even not be FORCED to see %1 changed to %'1', 
as scripty+KDE locale machinery could silently maintain the knowledge about 
'' internally.

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