On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Benjamin Wolsey
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> be translated (in Spanish) as
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> Date.Set%sMinutes necesita un argumento
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> or should the time unit be localized to
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> Date.Set%sMinutos necesita un argumento
The former. The %s is a placeholder for "UTC", because the same function
template handles both Date.setUTCMinutes and Date.setMinutes.
Thank you for the rapid response and clarification. I would strongly encourage any localizer working on the Gnash PO file to use Virtaal and work on a downloaded PO file because (for reasons I don't pretend to understand), it seems that a great many obscure debugging strings are already present in Virtaal's translation memory (at least for Spanish, but I would assume for other langs as well), allowing many strings to be completed with just a few mouse clicks and some careful attention to detail as some are close, but not exact, matches.
Virtaal (from the fine folks who maintain the Translate Toolkit and Pootle)
http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/virtaal/indexI'm making good progress on completing the Spanish L10n of Gnash in this manner and have seen that someone has started work on Arabic. When a PO is complete on our Pootle server, we'll file it upstream via your usual processes.
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Translation_Team/Upstream_localization#Gnash
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> There is one string that is somewhat inconsistent with the pattern of
> the others and may be an i18n error.
> libcore/asobj/Date_as.cpp:1167
> Date.setMilliseconds was called with more than one argument
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> does not have an embedded %s variable. Should it?
Yes, that's a bug in the format string.
> Thank you for your attention to this matter. I am asking on the list
> rather than filing a bug because I am not sure it is a bug.
Thanks for your attention to detail!
You're welcome. I will keep an eye on the upstream POT file and refresh our template (and projects) when this bug has been corrected. Benjamin, if I could please trouble you to file that bug for me, I'm having trouble logging on to Savannah (too many accounts on to many repos),