Word puzzles in release announcements

[Ben Cooksley]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 7:48 PM Alexander Potashev <aspotashev at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> (please CC, I'm not subscribed)
>
> 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.

Jonathan can you comment on the above please?

>
> --
> Alexander Potashev

Cheers,
Ben