Re: Do enabled, disabled, and not found need to be qualified per instance?

2010-05-17 Thread Andre Klapper
Am Montag, den 17.05.2010, 00:33 +0200 schrieb Wouter Bolsterlee: Short note about number/plurals: as far as I know, proper use of ngettext() and friends correctly handle this case for all languages. This pattern works really well for many language and is used in various Gnome modules: if

Re: Do enabled, disabled, and not found need to be qualified per instance?

2010-05-17 Thread Wouter Bolsterlee
Op maandag 17-05-2010 om 09:41 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Andre Klapper: Am Montag, den 17.05.2010, 00:33 +0200 schrieb Wouter Bolsterlee: Short note about number/plurals: as far as I know, proper use of ngettext() and friends correctly handle this case for all languages. This pattern

Re: Do enabled, disabled, and not found need to be qualified per instance?

2010-05-16 Thread Petr Kovar
Hi! Joanmarie Diggs joanmarie.di...@gmail.com, Sat, 15 May 2010 18:09:30 -0400: (...) The thing is, there are a bunch of structural navigation objects in Orca which can be not found. In particular: * Anchors * Blockquotes * Buttons * Check boxes * Chunks/Large Objects * Combo boxes *

Re: Do enabled, disabled, and not found need to be qualified per instance?

2010-05-16 Thread Wouter Bolsterlee
2010-05-16 klockan 00:09 skrev Joanmarie Diggs: Right. These words won't be part of a sentence or fragment. So the gender and number (if required in a particular language) would be for an object which is understood by the user, but not explicitly stated/included in the string. Short note

Re: Do enabled, disabled, and not found need to be qualified per instance?

2010-05-16 Thread Petr Kovar
Hi! Wouter Bolsterlee wbols...@gnome.org, Mon, 17 May 2010 00:33:38 +0200: 2010-05-16 klockan 00:09 skrev Joanmarie Diggs: Right. These words won't be part of a sentence or fragment. So the gender and number (if required in a particular language) would be for an object which is understood

Do enabled, disabled, and not found need to be qualified per instance?

2010-05-15 Thread Joanmarie Diggs
Hey all. Silly question: Do enabled, disabled, and not found need to be qualified per instance? More context: Orca speaks and brailles various confirmation messages when the user changes a setting on the fly or executes certain commands. Examples: User: enables/disables speech temporarily Orca:

Re: Do enabled, disabled, and not found need to be qualified per instance?

2010-05-15 Thread Petr Kovar
Hi! Joanmarie Diggs joanmarie.di...@gmail.com, Sat, 15 May 2010 15:18:41 -0400: Hey all. Silly question: Do enabled, disabled, and not found need to be qualified per instance? More context: Orca speaks and brailles various confirmation messages when the user changes a setting on the fly

Re: Do enabled, disabled, and not found need to be qualified per instance?

2010-05-15 Thread Joanmarie Diggs
Hey Petr. Thanks so much for the info! However, as long as those adjectives like enabled or disabled aren't incorporated into a sentence or sentence fragment, but are placed in a string of their own, it's often the case in i18n not to qualify per instance and respect various gender and

Re: Do enabled, disabled, and not found need to be qualified per instance?

2010-05-15 Thread Jorge González González
El sáb, 15-05-2010 a las 22:56 +0200, Petr Kovar escribió: Hi! Joanmarie Diggs joanmarie.di...@gmail.com, Sat, 15 May 2010 15:18:41 -0400: Hey all. Silly question: Do enabled, disabled, and not found need to be qualified per instance? More context: Orca speaks and brailles