[sugar] [PATCH] Improve formatting of relative dates

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Eben Eliason <eben.eliason at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  +NOW = _('Seconds ago')
>  >
>  >  Translators may not be able to translate adequately from 'Seconds
>  >  ago'. Perhaps a translation comment may help here? Example from
>  >  misc.py:
>  >
>  >  # TRANS: Relative dates (eg. 1 month and 5 days).
>
>  What if we are explicit in the comment about the intended meaning of NOW, as in:
>  # TRANS: Indicating something that just happened; "just now", "right
>  now", "moments ago"

Sounds good.

>  >  +AGO = _(' ago')
>  >  ...
>  >  +    return result + AGO
>  >
>  >  This will break in most languages other than english. Sayamindu, do
>  >  you have any idea about what can be done here?
>
>  Likewise:
>  # TRANS: Indicating time passed, eg (1 month, 5 days ago); "ago", "in
>  the past", "earlier"

Yes, but in some languages that string may appear in a different
position inside the sentence. What about _('%s ago') % result instead?
Btw, may be better to change the name of the result variable to
something more descriptive (like 'period'?).

http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq-strings.html

>  Good points.  I'm certainly not sure how translations would work, but
>  this approach seemed the most appropriate for the english audience to
>  me. Is offering a few synonyms for the intended meaning appropriate in
>  a TRANS comment?

Not sure, what thinks Sayamindu?

Thanks,

Tomeu