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

[From: Mohammed Hassan]

On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 14:56 +0300, Marius Vollmer wrote:
> 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?

Testing will reveal it.

> 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:

Or "Searched %d files and directories" ;-)


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