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Bug 261093 - Strange string surgery in evolution camel
Strange string surgery in evolution camel
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
unspecified
Other All
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks: 236276
 
 
Reported: 2004-07-02 15:42 UTC by Christian Rose
Modified: 2013-09-10 14:03 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Christian Rose 2004-07-02 15:42:07 UTC 
#: camel/providers/imap/camel-imap-store.c:1301
#: camel/providers/imapp/camel-imapp-store.c:344
#, c-format
msgid "%sPlease enter the IMAP password for %s@%s"


For a translator, it's almost impossible to know what the first %s gets
filled in with here or if it is something to take into account.

Don't puzzle strings together this way, and if you still have to do it,
please use translator comments
(http://developer.gnome.org/doc/tutorials/gnome-i18n/developer.html#use-comments)
to explain.
Comment 2 Christian Rose 2004-12-29 22:26:51 UTC 
What's the status on this?
Comment 3 Not Zed 2005-01-31 08:01:52 UTC 
this is to be removed in 2.1, so no longer an issue.

%s is just a placeholder for other text, it must remain at the start
of the string.

its a lot easier to do this than fucking around with strcats and other
crap to try to form the string.