Issue with translation in Dolphin

[Albert Astals Cid]

El dimarts, 1 de juny de 2021, a les 8:16:04 (CEST), Johnny Jazeix va escriure:
> Le lun. 31 mai 2021 à 21:47, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> a écrit :
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> > El dilluns, 31 de maig de 2021, a les 21:22:52 (CEST), Johnny Jazeix va
> > escriure:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > French translation team received a bug (
> > > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=437856) for a translation issue
> > within
> > > Dolphin.
> > >
> > > The issue resides in this code:
> > >
> > https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/blob/master/src/kitemviews/kfileitemmodel.cpp#L2182-2194
> > > where we expect "'Earlier on' MMMM, yyyy" to be translated with something
> > > like "'translated text' MMMM, yyyy".
> > >
> > > In French, we have translated this single quote to French guillemets "«
> > > translated text » MMMM, yyyy".
> > >
> > > Looking at the code, can you confirm it should be kept with single quotes
> > > instead? If yes, does having a translator comment would help avoiding the
> > > issue?
> >
> > Yes, the code needs ' since it's passed to QDateTime::toString.
> >
> > The quotes are not shown to the user, they are used to mark a section as
> > "this is text, just pass it though, don't try to do MMM or yyyy
> > substitution here".
> >
> >
> Thanks for confirming, I've updated it.
> 
> Given that the translation comment is already already very long, what would
> > you suggest?
> >
> >
> "Keep the words between single quotes in single quotes"? I'm not sure if
> French is an exception here on changing the single quotes sometimes to
> guillemets. If this is the only times we have a bug filled for it, maybe
> it's not needed to add a new comment.

Lots of teams seem to do it wrong, so 

https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/merge_requests/218

Cheers,
  Albert

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> Cheers,
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> Johnny
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> > Cheers,
> >   Albert
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> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Johnny
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