Yes, using <translate> for the {{#time:}} function works well, I have done
so years ago already. If it's not too late and if nobody beats me to it, I
could help set this up for this page tonight (my time), Nick.lør. 21. aug. 2021, 10:35 skrev <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 11:12 PM Nick Wilson (Quiddity) < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> @Petr, good question. >> My goal with using the #time function was to make future re-uses of the >> message as simple as possible, by not requiring any updates from individual >> translators whenever it next needs to be sent. >> > > Yes, that is indeed a good idea, definitely better than using > untranslatable English date or something like that! The only issue is the > used format. > > >> I had thought this method would work (if not perfectly, then at least >> well enough for each reader to understand it). >> > > Yeah, I believe the readers should understand the result all right, it’s > just that it’s obviously non-Czech, it reads artificial/strange. > > >> If you/anyone knows of a better way to achieve this goal, I'd be happy to >> learn and use it! >> > > I thought marking the _format string_ for translation _might_ work? I. e. > let the translators translate the “l F d H:i e” string inside the #time > invocation; e.g. for Czech, I’d translate that to “I j. xg. Y, H:i e”. (It > might need an explanatory documentation for translators – do translatable > pages support /qqq documentation?) But I don’t know, does translation work > inside parser functions, or will it break somehow? > > Even though MediaWiki does know the proper date/time format for every > language (and allows the user to select his/her preferred), it uses these > for outputting timestamps on e.g. history pages (or formatting the ~~~~ > signatures). But I don’t think there is a magic word / parser function / > something which would provide this information into wikitext? (Yeah, the > user-configured option cannot be sent to the parser, as it would break > caching, but at least the default format for the content language? I guess > not.) > > -- [[cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]] > _______________________________________________ > Translators-l mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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