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

[Sebastian Heinlein]

Am Do, den 27.11.2003 schrieb Sebastian Heinlein um 09:21:
> Am Mi, den 26.11.2003 schrieb Jean-Michel POURE um 21:02:
> > Take the example of:
> > "Size: 3145k".
> > 
> > The French translation is :
> > "Size : 3145 Ko" (notice the space before ":")
> > 
> > Only a translator translating a full Gettext sentence is intelligent 
> > enough... 
> > In any circumstance, we need a "Size: %d k" string.
> 
> > Really, I have no idea. No need to build a table, it will not support
> > RTL.
> 
> You can translate "Size:" with "Taille :" - as you have done.
> 
> Gnome also inverts the word order. So "Size: 4000 KByte" would be "Kbyte
> 4000 :Size" in Arabic.
> 
> I would suggest using a table with the various entities. "KByte" and
> "MByte" would be more friendly to translators. Or would you know what a
> single "kb" string could mean? And we also have got the place on the ui.

Ohh, it seems to be too early for me.

The word order ist not inverted automatically in synaptic. The order of
the widgets is inverted only.

So we could just split up number and unit into two label widgets. Gnome
should invert them in RTL environments automatically.