[Phpmyadmin-devel] Translatable messages

[Tyron Madlener]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Michal Čihař <michal at 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.

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