[Localization] Repeated strings

[Chris Leonard]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:38 AM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Clytie,
>
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Clytie Siddall <clytie at riverland.net.au>
> wrote:
> > Hi everyone :)
> >
> > I've struck repeated stings in Honey, and I think in other Sugar files
> > (many examples, e.g.):
> >
> > "Preset 1"
> >
> > "Preset 2"
> >
> > "Preset 3"
> >
> > "Preset 4"
> >
> > "Preset 5"
> >
> > which could be replaced with one string:
> >
> > "Preset %d"
>
>
> Eeegh :-(.
>
> Please post on the mailing list when you see this kind of messages,
> with the name of the package that you see this in. I'll follow up with
> the developer. Or you want to eliminate the middleman ;-), you can
> directly file a ticket at dev.sugarlabs.org
>
> Thanks,
> Sayamindu
>

I think recognize these from the TamTam suite.  It was an early
developed/sugarized activity and it is a really good one, but it does fall
short of some good internationalization practices in a number of ways.

I had poked one of the maintainers about some string corrections and it
sounded like he was going to get together with the other contributors to
look it over again, but we'll have to see if they get active again.  This
sounds like something we should bring to the attention of the Activities
Team as well.

cjl
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