Package: gnome-games
Version: N/A

It is almost impossible to translate the some marked strings in
aisleriot in Korean (and I think so also in many other languages).
For example, in SCHEME_GAMES.h:

N_(" of "),
N_("'s"),
...

Most languages don't have the words that have same meanings and same
usage in a sentence like these..  

And, in dialog.c:


      case 1:
	gmessage = g_string_new (_("Move the "));
	g_string_append (gmessage, gh_scm2newstr(gh_cadr(hint),NULL));
	g_string_append (gmessage, _(" on the "));
	g_string_append (gmessage, gh_scm2newstr(gh_caddr(hint),NULL));
	g_string_append (gmessage, _("."));
	break;

      case 2:
	gmessage = g_string_new (_("Move the "));
	g_string_append (gmessage, gh_scm2newstr(gh_cadr(hint),NULL));
	g_string_append (gmessage, _(" on "));
	g_string_append (gmessage, gh_scm2newstr(gh_caddr(hint),NULL));
	g_string_append (gmessage, _("."));
	break;

      case 3:
	gmessage = g_string_new (_("Move the "));
	g_string_append (gmessage, gh_scm2newstr(gh_cadr(hint),NULL));
	g_string_append (gmessage, _(" "));
	g_string_append (gmessage, gh_scm2newstr(gh_caddr(hint),NULL));
	g_string_append (gmessage, _("."));
	break;

      case 4:
	gmessage = g_string_new (_("You are searching for a "));
	g_string_append (gmessage, gh_scm2newstr(gh_cadr(hint),NULL));
	g_string_append (gmessage, _("."));
	break;

Very tricky...  And these are never correctly translatable.

-- 
Changwoo RYU




------- Bug moved to this database by debbugs-export@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-01-27 16:30 -------
This bug was previously known as bug 2422 at http://bugs.gnome.org/
http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2422
Originally filed under the gnome-games product and general component.

The original reporter (cwryu@debian.org) of this bug does not have an account here.
Reassigning to the exporter, debbugs-export@bugzilla.gnome.org.
Reassigning to the default owner of the component, bugmeister@canvas.gnome.org.