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: enabl

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

2010-05-15 Thread Petr Kovar
Hi! Joanmarie Diggs , 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 > whe

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 a

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 , Sat, 15 May 2010 15:18:41 > -0400: > > > Hey all. > > > > Silly question: Do "enabled", "disabled", and "not found" need to be > > qu

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

2010-05-16 Thread Petr Kovar
Hi! Joanmarie Diggs , 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 > * Entries > *

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 a

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

2010-05-16 Thread Petr Kovar
Hi! Wouter Bolsterlee , 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 by the user

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: > >

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