GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 726232
wall-clock: Always use the ratio character for time strings
Last modified: 2014-05-31 06:47:08 UTC
In gnome-desktop code we have time format strings with colons, and expect translators to replace them with the ratio character whenever it makes sense. It even goes as far as we have a mostly empty en.po file that only replaces colon with ratio. This doesn't really scale since translators often overlook the format strings. The patch here implements Bastien Nocera's idea to make the situation saner, so that translators could keep using plain colon in the .po files: 11:14 < hadess> csoriano__, why can't you change the ratio character after translation? 11:15 < hadess> csoriano__, you could even fix the whole problem by doing that, and making sure that the direction unicode mark is inserted to make sure things don't get reordered
Created attachment 271703 [details] [review] wall-clock: Always use the ratio character for time strings Since the ratio character looks visually more pleasing in time strings, replace colons with the ratio characters whenever possible.
*** Bug 730402 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I think it will be great to make more release (3.12.3) with this patch. IIRC, this is an old bug I hear from the some Hebrew users.
<yoseforb> hadess: Hey, you can to llok to review the patch in bug 726232? <hadess> yoseforb, no, not until we have a working test suite
Attachment 271703 [details] pushed as 665125e - wall-clock: Always use the ratio character for time strings
Please, push the patch to the gnome-3-12 branch too.
*** Bug 696497 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 699325 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Hmm, actually, I asked Matthias Clasen about this idea half a year ago, and his reply was that this is insane ;)