[kde-www] Word puzzles in release announcements

Jonathan Riddell jr at jriddell.org
Thu Oct 4 09:56:14 BST 2018


On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 11:54:13PM +0300, Alexander Potashev wrote:
> There are a few translatable strings extracted from release
> announcements' .php files like these:
>   "Today KDE unveils a %1 release of Plasma %2."
>   "Today KDE unveils the %1 release of Plasma %2."
>   "Today KDE launches the %1 release of Plasma %2."
> where "%1" in substituted by a hardcoded English word.
> 
> For example in announcements/plasma-5.14.0.php:
>   i18n_var("Today KDE launches the %1 release of Plasma %2.", "first", "5.14")
> the word "first" cannot be translated into other human languages.
> 
> Please fix. I guess even a static string "Today KDE launches the first
> release of Plasma 5.14." would be better than what we have now.

Thanks for pointing this out.  I've updated the 5.14 announce due on Tuesday and the template for future announcements.

Jonathan


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