El dom, 09-08-2009 a las 17:49 +0200, Petr Kovar escribió: > Hi! > > Christian Rose <ment...@menthos.com>, Fri, 7 Aug 2009 13:30:37 +0200: > > > On 8/7/09, Vincent Untz <vu...@gnome.org> wrote: > > > Le lundi 03 août 2009, à 16:53 +0200, Christian Rose a écrit : > > > > So, as always with localization, you just can't concatenate sentences > > > > or pieces of sentences and get a result. It has to be translated as a > > > > whole. > > > > > > So it seems we have a good argument that "%1$s - %2$s" (with Name & > > > GenericName) is wrong. > > > > > > Christian, just out of interest: is it also true for "%1$s (%2$s)" (I > > > would expect it is). > > > > Yes. Actually, in the specific case of Swedish "%1$s (%2$s)" could > > work, but it would be a lot less elegant than the whole string without > > parentheses, and I can imagine other languages where it would not > > work. Let's keep it simple and translate it as a whole. > > With regard to the approaches described above, amongst other things, > there'd be issue with (noun) capitalization. E.g. in Slovak, we translate > "Rhythmbox Music Player" (that is "Name GenericName") as "Prehrávač hudby > Rhythmbox" (that is "GenericName Name"), because just as in many other > languages, unlike English, the "preponed" indeclinable attribute is > orthographically incorrect, as Luca has implied before in his message that > dealt with Italian. > > Now, with the approach like "Name - GenericName", we change the > capitalization of the GenericName, so then we get "Rhythmbox - prehrávač > hudby", not "Rhythmbox - Prehrávač hudby", which would be orthographically > incorrect, too. Here, the "- prehrávač hudby" fragment is conceived as a > description, not as a (generic) name with capital letter(s), hence the > minuscule. It's basically the same for Spanish.
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