[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Freeciv into Finnish?

[Erik Sigra <sigra@xxxxxxx>]

fredagen den  8 december 2000 15:34 skrev Sini Ruohomaa:
> Hi!
> * Is variable-shuffling allowed, and if so, how should it be done? I can't
>   bend any variables (add things to their end to get pretty much the same
>   effect that prepositions do with English) for various reasons, so I
>   pretty much can't have them for instance as objects in sentences.
>   I'm doing various hacks to avoid this, and being able to shuffle the
>   variables (first use the one listed second etc) would be, uh, nice.
>   Also, is it allowed to skip variables?

When I did the Swedish translation, I looked at the German translation to 
find out how variable-shuffling is done. They use it in some places, for 
example:

msgid "Game: %s upgraded to %s in %s for %d gold."
msgstr "Spiel: In %3$s %1$s zum Preis von %4$d Goldstücken durch %2$s 
ersetzt."