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[Bug 198365] Re: Words order isn't i18n friendly

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From: stani <spe.stani.be@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:53:53 -0000
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** Changed in: phatch
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

** Changed in: phatch
    Milestone: None => 0.2.1

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Words order isn't i18n friendly
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198365
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Status in Phatch = Photo & Batch!: Fix Released

Bug description:
In a number of cases Phatch doesn't respect langauges other than English.

For example, in Save action's dialog there are messages like "PNG Optimize" or "JPG Size Maximum". Translatable part is "Optimize" and "Size Maximum" only. Thjis is perfectly OK for English, but in Russian the words order will be "Optimize PNG" and "Maximum Size of JPG" respectively.

The usual way to handle this is using variables. E.g.: "% Optimize" and "%s Size Maximum". Then translators can place the variable whereever they like it.

Same applies to dialogs captions. E.g. "Phatch actions" where only "actions" is translatable.

Until you fix it, translated GUI will look ugly :(