[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Multiple patches

[Jed Davis <jldavis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--On Friday, 28 July 2000 11:25 AM +1000 Robert Rendell
<rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[translation difficulties]
> I'm not even trying to be particularly grammatical; I don't try to have
> "(building blah in x, y and z)", but rather "(building blah in x, y, z)".
> As such, my belief was that what I was doing would be generally
> translatable.
I'd think so too, but due to Murphy's Law there's probably one language out 
there where that somehow won't work... of course, I guess that'd be true
for any list setup...

> BTW, surely a bigger word-order problem for translators is the %s's
> embedded in the strings, which get replaced by the parameters to the
> *printf() in the order they're given?
From fr.po, line 392:
< #: server/barbarian.c:435
< #, c-format
< msgid "Native unrest near %s led by %s."
< msgstr "Apparition d'indignènes menés par %2$s aux abords de %1$s."

--Jed, who stumbled upon that by chance yesterday