Changes on Catalog.GetString()

joejoe2010

Hello everybody,

I've noticed that on the current template many entries are double / just a little bit different, fe. the following one.

Language
Language:
Lang&uage:

The problem is that they are not neighbours in the template. As in launchpad everybody can translate the entries he wants and when he wants possibly "Language" is translated by one person and "Language:" by another - but they probably won't translate it the same way but using other words.

My suggtestion is to remove all entries that contain the same word from the template and modify the source code.

Am I right that Catalog.GetString calls GNU.Gettext.dll? I suppose that we are not able to modify this library.

So I would suggest to create a new class / method that recieves as parameter the string to search, the caracters that need to be added at a specific place and the indices of those caracters in the String.
Something like .getStringAndSpecialCaracters("Language", 5, "&", 10, ":");

What do you think?

Greetings

Joachim

wolfganguhr

joejoe2010 wrote
Language
Language:

Hello Joachim

This part of the problem can easily be solved by replacing

Catalog.GetString("Language:");

against ...

Catalog.GetString("Language") +":";

Best regards
Wolfgang

joejoe2010

yes, that's true. ;-)

Thank you

Joachim

thiasg

wolfganguhr wrote

This part of the problem can easily be solved by replacing

Catalog.GetString("Language:");

against ...

Catalog.GetString("Language") +":";

I could not recommend this: For most European languages this may work, but in other countries/cultures a ":" may not be adequate. For more flexibility I (and the l10n people from my previous job) recommend to have two catalog entries, because it is used in different contexts.

What the l10n people from my previous job found helpful, is a reference to the source code, where it is used. So it was at least possible to ask the developer, for what this catalog entry was used.

ThiasG