[Synaptic-devel] Re: Other Gettext issues in the General tab

[Sebastian Heinlein]

Am Mi, den 26.11.2003 schrieb Michael Vogt um 14:20:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 12:51:36PM +0100, Jean-Michel POURE wrote:
> > Dear friends,
> Dear Jean-Michel,
>  
> > Synaptics displays "Size: 3145k". It seems that the po only has the string 
> > "Size:".
> > 
> > As a result, Synatics may be incompatible with RTL languages like Arabic. 
> > Even 
> > in Asian languages, this may be a problem as ":" is rarely used. If you 
> > stick 
> > something after ":", this may be a problem.
> > 
> > Now, in French:
> > "Size: 3145k" should be coded as:
> > "Size: %d k" Which is tranlated into French by
> > "Size: 4135 Ko" (notice 'k' becomes Ko).
> > 
> > Apparently, only the entries in the General tab are impacted:
> 
> This is a problem. We use two different labels for the "Size: " and
> the the size itself. We do this, because this way we can make sure
> that the layout of the labels in aligned. 
> 
> Do you know how e.g. nautilus deals with this problem? The common tab
> is modeled after the properties window in nautilus (click on file with
> the right mouse button in nautilus and then select "properties" to see
> a example).
> 
> For the Size extension (like kb, Mb). Would it be go to build a table
> like this: 
> _("kb"), _("Mb"), _("Gb"), _("Tb"), _("Pb"), _("Eb"), _("Zb"), _("Yb")
> 
> for the various sizes?

This is a very good idea. I would like to see "KByte" and not just only
"kb".