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["Sergey \"Shnatsel\" Davidoff" <sergey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Developers: please add comments for translators on all non-obvious strings
like this one!

Also please add translator comments on all strings with substitutions (e.g.
"%s") so that translators know what the %s is replaced with.
Here's how it looks in code:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~elementary-apps/noise/trunk/view/head:/src/Views/ListView/ListView.vala#L379
And here's how translators see it:
https://translations.launchpad.net/noise/trunk/+pots/noise/ru/139/+translate

Info on adding Gettext translator comments can be found at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettext#Programming

Or, better yet, use string templates instead of %s and other printf
substitutions. It's much more readable for everyone:
Code:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~elementary-apps/noise/trunk/view/head:/core/LibrariesManager.vala#L130
Translation:
https://translations.launchpad.net/noise/trunk/+pots/noise/ru/1/+translate

More info on string templates can be found at
https://live.gnome.org/Vala/Tutorial#Strings



2013/5/15 Alfredo Hernández <aldomann.designs@xxxxxxxxx>

> Hi guys,
>
> There's a very strange string in Noise translations that doesn't make any
> sense to me (as a translatable string): *the|a|an|le|la|les|un|une|der
> |die|das|los *(string No. 45). It doesn't even give any clue of what is
> the purpose of it and what it means.
>
> May you have a look at it?
>
> Thanks in advice,
> Alfredo.
> **
>
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Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff
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