I agree. We are getting nested translations here which does not work
equally well in all languages. Translation strings have to be fully spelled.
On Nov 25, 2011 7:25 PM, "Vladimir Macek" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello translators,
>
> there's a new `naturaltime' template tag coming with the Django dev
> version. It construct a phrase specifying how much ago/from-now the given
> time is.
> https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/humanize/#naturaltime
>
> When the difference is more than one day, it calls timesince/timeuntil and
> translates its result using "%(delta) ago"/"%(delta) from now" msgids.
>
> In my Czech language the translation of these is rather dumb unless I have
> a chance to translate words generated here by timesince/timeuntil
> differently.
>
> The past form would sound like either "age %(delta)s" or "%(delta)s in the
> past". For second form I don't know anything better than "%(delta) in the
> future". Not pretty.
>
> Do other languages have similar trouble? In case there is considerable
> number of them, I think the code should be changed.
>
> The best I can see now would be to pass i18n contexts like "naturaltime
> past"/"naturaltime future" to timesince/timeuntil
> OR
> don't call timesince/timeuntil at all and reimplement their functionality
> using msgids containing words "hours", "minutes" etc. together with "ago"
> and "from now" -- just as naturaltime already does when the delta is within
> one day (u'a second from now', u'%(count)s seconds from now'), which is
> completely ok.
>
> Thank you for responses,
>
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