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[Hakan Erduman <hakan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Let me have a guess:

the string isn't for translation, it is for ordering artist names:

Before:
A Flock Of Seagulls
Die Toten Hosen
Los Lobos
The Beatles

After:
Beatles, The
Flock Of Seagulls, A
Lobos, Los
Toten Hosen, Die

So the string must be unmarked for translation.

wkr,

Hakan

Am 15.05.2013 12:32, schrieb Alfredo Hernández:
> Yes, that would also be very useful. Sometimes you can deduct what %s 
> means and therefore localise the string accordingly, but sometimes you 
> just must use a neutral phrase because you don't know what it refers to.
>
> Regards, Alfredo.
>
> On 15 May 2013 12:06, "Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff" 
> <sergey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:sergey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     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
>     <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Eelementary-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
>     <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Eelementary-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
>     <mailto: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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