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Bug 475102 - Please add translator comments to explain the context of localized date format strings
Please add translator comments to explain the context of localized date forma...
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: tomboy
Classification: Applications
Component: General
unspecified
Other All
: Normal trivial
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Assigned To: Tomboy Maintainers
Tomboy Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks: 514179
 
 
Reported: 2007-09-09 12:53 UTC by TLE
Modified: 2013-10-28 21:15 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.19/2.20


Description TLE 2007-09-09 12:53:19 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
Hey everybody
Consider the following date format strings that are marked for translation

#: ../Tomboy/Tray.cs:193
msgid "dddd, MMMM d, h:mm tt"

#: ../Tomboy/Utils.cs:182
msgid "MMMM d, h:mm tt"

#: ../Tomboy/Utils.cs:183
msgid "MMMM d"

#: ../Tomboy/Utils.cs:188
msgid "MMMM d yyyy, h:mm tt"

#: ../Tomboy/Utils.cs:189
msgid "MMMM d yyyy"

It is of course a good thing that they are marked for translation. But, there really should be a translator comment, explaining both the format (though it can probably be guessed), and the context of the string, meaning where in the program and GUI are they going to be used.
Thanks in advance
Kenneth Nielsen

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Does this happen every time?


Other information:
Comment 1 TLE 2007-09-09 13:16:51 UTC 
And please also comment on this one.

#: ../Mono.Addins/Mono.Addins.Gui/Mono.Addins.Gui/AddinTreeWidget.cs:168
msgid "Other"

"Other" can be translated in a number of ways depending on what it is referring to
Comment 2 TLE 2007-09-09 14:55:10 UTC 
Oh yeah and I think there is a error in this string.

#: ../Tomboy/Synchronization/SyncDialog.cs:275
msgid "Preparing to upload updates from server..."

Isn't this supposed to be "Preparing to upload updates to server..." ??
Comment 3 TLE 2007-09-09 22:59:24 UTC 
They just keep coming and coming !

#: ../data/tomboy.schemas.in.h:22
msgid "Note Synchronization Conflict Saved Behavior"

What exactly does this mean?


#: ../Tomboy/Addins/PrintNotes/gtksourceprintjob.c:333
msgid "Font description to use for the line numbers"
I strongly assume that the word "description" is a copy/paste error and isn't supposed to be there
Comment 4 Boyd Timothy 2008-02-26 19:16:09 UTC 
Setting the default assignee and QA Contact to "tomboy-maint@gnome.bugs".