Indeed, Slovenian is not the easiest language :)
Not sure how the grammatical number gets chosen in runtime, but sometimes it
might be hard already during the translation phase (it took a while for me to
gasp the gettext formula).
I ran into rosetta with default install of Ubuntu ("translate this application"
or so), so there are probably many novice translators, who would need a better
explanation about that when translating. Maybe a short explanation and example
phrase should be shown in the translation interface.
https://translations.launchpad.net/josm/trunk/+pots/keys/sl/201/+translate
https://translations.launchpad.net/josm/trunk/+pots/keys/sl/202/+translate
Explanations at each grammatical number could look like (based on Luka's
suggestions):
[0], singular (ednina): V smeteh je 301 predmet.
[1], dual (dvojina): V smeteh sta 4.802 predmeta.
[2], plural (množina) 3 or 4: V smeteh so 3 predmeti.
[3], plural (množina) 0 or 5 or more: V smeteh je 5 predmetov.
This would need to be set by language admins, or whoever sets the gettext
formula.
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>for instance "Ime barve (color name)" in the filename column header in gnome
>file open dialog,
this case it was probably originally just "name" in a color picking dialogue,
and the same in file open dialogue. It had one original msgid, but was
translated with color dialogue in mind (eg message "pick a colour" for the
titlebar of the color picking dialogue was offered for translation just before).
> or "razširitev" (extension in sense of plugin) on the file extension column.
I guess this one is due to the fact that in slovenian we have "razširitev" for
plugin and "pripona" or "končnica" for file name extension. But in english it
can all be "extension", thus both sharing a single msgid.
It might also be confusing the suggesting algorithm (picking
translations of same expressions in other applications), offering a bad
advice to the translator if he is not really sure of the context. It
helps to determine the message's context by looking in which files it
appears, but sometimes Slovenian rich vocabulary can't be mapped
directly on the English homonymous messages. At least not without making
it sound ridiculous.
Would it be possible to somehow "branch" the translation of some message
(eg "extension") into several translations (eg "razširitev" (plugin) and
"pripona" (filename extension)), depending on context?
Example of _totally_ wrong suggestions:
https://translations.launchpad.net/josm/trunk/+pots/keys/sl/41/+translate
english: Open
suggestions: Operacija (operation), Dodaj (add), _Odpri (_Open)
I'm sure a proper translation must already exist, but isn't suggested for some
reason. is it limited to first 3 suggestions instead of most popular 3
suggestions?)
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