Sgrìobh Milan Crha na leanas 19/08/2016 aig 09:26: > On Thu, 2016-08-18 at 11:26 +0200, Rafal Luzynski wrote: >> If I may put my 2 cents here, wouldn't you guys consider a notation >> without spaces, like "%s:%s" (inspired by an old MacOS) or "%s::%s" >> (inspired by C++ namespace notation)? > > Hi, > I like the way it had been done some time ago (possibly years ago), > thus I'll keep it '%s : %s'. > >> It may be already too late to change the notation so maybe use >> nonbreaking spaces (Unicode character 160 dec or A0 hex)? What if a >> line gets wrapped at this point? > > The account name (the first %s) and/or even the folder name (the second > %s) can also contain spaces, thus the nonbreaking space might not give > much value. But good idea otherwise, I didn't think of it earlier. > >>> maybe replace %s : %s with a single %s using some C magic. :) > > Right. The evolution code uses a "C magic", which may or may not be > good (would RTL languages prefer to switch the order or not). I thought > it'll be better done in place in eds, also to avoid one more string > allocation and immediate free of it. Maybe I'll change my mind in the > future.
If in doubt, best leave control over this with the translators. So, +1 for keeping this as it is. >> +1 for suggesting that a translators comment would be helpful here >> explaining that spaces are intentional and should be preserved >> as well as explaining what are those %s's. > > Okay, I added translator comments above those strings. There were above > some already, but not above all. I made them the same or quite similar: > https://git.gnome.org/browse/evolution-data-server/commit/?id=01b088cc3 Looking good, thanks! _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
