[Phpmyadmin-devel] Translatable messages

[Michal Čihař]

Hi

Dne Wed, 22 Jun 2011 10:58:15 +0200
Tyron Madlener <tyronx at 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'.

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	Michal Čihař | http://cihar.com | http://blog.cihar.com
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