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Message #01137
[Bug 863039] Re: Untranslatable strings
There are some more strings that need plurals, namely the "X
minutes/hours/days ago" strings in the main window. The file containing
these is missing from POTFILES.in too. Proposed branch fixes all of
this. I also changed the time limit of the "a few seconds ago" string,
because IMHO between 30 and 60 seconds, the "0 minutes ago" string would
look funny. Before, this case was considered "1 minute ago", I hope this
is not a problem.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/863039
Title:
Untranslatable strings
Status in Ubuntu Translations:
Triaged
Status in “gwibber” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
In ../libgwibber-gtk/stream-view-tile.vala:658:
"person liked this"
In ../libgwibber-gtk/stream-view-tile.vala:662:
"people liked this"
These strings are untranslatable in many languages, as the number is
missing from the sentence, and they cannot be translated in a correct
or understandable way, as the number would need to be rearranged
within the sentence.
In general, it's always a bad idea to split sentences, which in most
cases results in missing context or untranslatable strings.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gwibber 3.1.92-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Sep 30 08:33:39 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
SourcePackage: gwibber
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-06 (23 days ago)
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