Re: [Enigma-devel] Slovak localization

[M. T.]

Hi,
one of the Finnish translator reported an issure in reordering of words in the translation file.
Can someone check this?

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By the way I found that some user visible strings are made up like this (taken from trunk/src/server.cc at line 184):
std::string msg = _("Server Error: could not load level '")
+ levelPathString + "'\n"
+ err.what();

In this string using concatenation prevents reordering of words and localization of quotation marks. For example in a translation the level name (levelPathString) cannot be in the middle of the sentence. An example in Finnish:
Palvelinvirhe: tason ”%s” lataaminen epäonnistui
(roughly in English: Server Error: loading level '%s' failed)

It’s better to use sprintf, Boost Format or similar to format strings. Gettext manual has more information on this in chapter 4.3 Preparing Translatable Strings: http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#Preparing-Strings

Cheers,
Lasse
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Thanks.
Michi