[Phpmyadmin-devel] Translatable messages
Hi all while translating to Czech, I noticed that some messages are not really good translatable. I've fixed what I've found so far and I've written some guidelines to avoid such problems in future. You can find the hints on our wiki: http://wiki.phpmyadmin.net/pma/Gettext_for_developers#Translatable_messages Please try to remember that phpMyAdmin is being translated to wide range of languages and they compose the sentence in different ways. -- Michal Čihař | http://cihar.com | http://blog.cihar.com
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Michal Čihař <michal@cihar.com> wrote:
Hi all
while translating to Czech, I noticed that some messages are not really good translatable. I've fixed what I've found so far and I've written some guidelines to avoid such problems in future.
You can find the hints on our wiki:
http://wiki.phpmyadmin.net/pma/Gettext_for_developers#Translatable_messages
Please try to remember that phpMyAdmin is being translated to wide range of languages and they compose the sentence in different ways.
Thanks for the hints.
Format string order - do not assume other language will keep order of printf parameters, in many case it won't.
How to avoid this then?
Untranslated parts - you might want to use some value directly as received from MySQL (eg. ON/OFF), but in most case it will look oddly in translated version.
It would be bad to change that in the case of server variables, since mysql only accepts setting english ON/OFF ;) I think it would be misleading to have ON/OFF translated.
-- Michal Čihař | http://cihar.com | http://blog.cihar.com
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Hi Dne Wed, 22 Jun 2011 10:58:15 +0200 Tyron Madlener <tyronx@gmail.com> napsal(a):
Format string order - do not assume other language will keep order of printf parameters, in many case it won't.
How to avoid this then?
Use position based format strings such as %2$s, updated wiki with this.
Untranslated parts - you might want to use some value directly as received from MySQL (eg. ON/OFF), but in most case it will look oddly in translated version.
It would be bad to change that in the case of server variables, since mysql only accepts setting english ON/OFF ;) I think it would be misleading to have ON/OFF translated.
Indeed in some cases it makes sense to keep it, but definitely not in situations like 'Turn %s'. -- Michal Čihař | http://cihar.com | http://blog.cihar.com
On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 11:14 +0200, Michal Čihař wrote:
Hi
Dne Wed, 22 Jun 2011 10:58:15 +0200 Tyron Madlener <tyronx@gmail.com> napsal(a):
Format string order - do not assume other language will keep order of printf parameters, in many case it won't.
How to avoid this then?
Use position based format strings such as %2$s, updated wiki with this.
Untranslated parts - you might want to use some value directly as received from MySQL (eg. ON/OFF), but in most case it will look oddly in translated version.
It would be bad to change that in the case of server variables, since mysql only accepts setting english ON/OFF ;) I think it would be misleading to have ON/OFF translated.
Indeed in some cases it makes sense to keep it, but definitely not in situations like 'Turn %s'.
Sounds like my code for toggling the event scheduler. Thanks for fixing that for me :)
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Michal Čihař -
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Tyron Madlener