[maemo-developers] Maemo localization to officially non-supported languages

[From: Marius Vollmer]

Kimmo Hämäläinen <kimmo.hamalainen at nokia.com> writes:

> Wrong.  It would depend on the context and language.

Yes, it COULD, fer-crying-out-loudly. :) We have the data now to
figure out whether it actually DOES for the set of our supported
languages.

> And what happens when you add a new, more 'context-sensitive'
> language?

We change the code.  Simple.  Providing unneeded context is bad in my
opinion, and the way we do it with the logical ids is excessivly ugly.

Also, how do you know whether I use the correct context in my code?
Maybe I am using "ai_bd_ok" for all my "OK" buttons?


In general, we should try to reduce the need for context and
complicated translations.  The classical example might:

   Searched in %d files and %d directories.

You will never be able to translate this nicely for all languages
because of the wierd way they handle plurals, etc, and because of the
combinatorial explosion.  A better way is:

   Number of files searched: %d
   Number of directories searched: %d