Translation for time zone conversion runner

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Thu Feb 9 22:09:38 GMT 2023


El dijous, 9 de febrer de 2023, a les 18:40:34 (CET), Natalie Clarius va 
escriure:
> Dear translators,
> I authored the recently added time zone conversion feature for the date-time
> runner. It was brought to my attention that the way the input is parsed
> poses some problems for translation into various languages. I actually
> intended to make the syntax not too natural-language-y, and we decided to
> go with a format similar to what we already have in the unit conversion
> runner. The discussion can be found here:
> https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/2587 But it appears
> that I did not succeed in making it independent enough of peculiarities of
> English syntax after all.
> 
> Could you point out which assumptions about the input format are especially
> problematic for translation, and how this could possibly be handled in a
> better way? 

Are you expecting all the translators to understand C++ code?

Please explain how the input format works in words non-coders can understand 
:)

Best Regards,
  Albert

> Cheers,Natalie






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