[sugar] [PATCH] Improve formatting of relative dates
Sayamindu Dasgupta
sayamindu at gmail.com
Sun Apr 20 17:04:41 EDT 2008
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 2:18 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Eben Eliason <eben.eliason at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > +NOW = _('Seconds ago')
> > >
> > > Translators may not be able to translate adequately from 'Seconds
> > > ago'. Perhaps a translation comment may help here? Example from
> > > misc.py:
> > >
> > > # TRANS: Relative dates (eg. 1 month and 5 days).
> >
> > What if we are explicit in the comment about the intended meaning of NOW, as in:
> > # TRANS: Indicating something that just happened; "just now", "right
> > now", "moments ago"
>
> Sounds good.
>
>
> > > +AGO = _(' ago')
> > > ...
> > > + return result + AGO
> > >
> > > This will break in most languages other than english. Sayamindu, do
> > > you have any idea about what can be done here?
> >
> > Likewise:
> > # TRANS: Indicating time passed, eg (1 month, 5 days ago); "ago", "in
> > the past", "earlier"
>
> Yes, but in some languages that string may appear in a different
> position inside the sentence. What about _('%s ago') % result instead?
> Btw, may be better to change the name of the result variable to
> something more descriptive (like 'period'?).
>
> http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq-strings.html
I would say +1 for the above. It is very difficult to predict how a
translation might rearrange a string, so _('%s ago') would be the
safest option (along with a #TRANS comment explaining the string).
Thanks,
Sayamindu
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Sayamindu Dasgupta
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