[Sugar-devel] [sugar 0.98 patch] sl#3528: Keep the "Sugar" keyword untranslated

Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com
Fri Aug 3 17:16:15 EDT 2012


Please do not create composited (formed by concatenation) sentences,
this is an i18n no-no.  Add a translator's comment to the string.

cjl
Sugar Labs Translation Team Coordinator

On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Samuel Greenfeld <greenfeld at laptop.org> wrote:
> This patch presumes that grammatical order is the same across all translated
> languages.  The diff implies this might always have been the case for the
> first sentence.
>
> Unfortunately this is not necessarily true:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_order
>
> Personally I think this could be better handled through a comment for
> translators.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 2:05 AM, Kartik Perisetla <kartik.peri at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kartik Perisetla <kartik.peri at gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  extensions/cpsection/aboutcomputer/view.py |    2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/extensions/cpsection/aboutcomputer/view.py
>> b/extensions/cpsection/aboutcomputer/view.py
>> index 34ada18..5e88729 100644
>> --- a/extensions/cpsection/aboutcomputer/view.py
>> +++ b/extensions/cpsection/aboutcomputer/view.py
>> @@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ class AboutComputer(SectionView):
>>          vbox_copyright.pack_start(label_copyright, expand=False)
>>
>>          info_text = 'Sugar'+_(' is the graphical user interface that you
>> are'
>> -                      ' looking at. Sugar is free software, covered by
>> the'
>> +                      ' looking at. ')+'Sugar'+_(' is free software,
>> covered by the'
>>                        ' GNU General Public License, and you are welcome
>> to'
>>                        ' change it and/or distribute copies of it under'
>>                        ' certain conditions described therein.')
>> --
>> 1.7.10.4
>>
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