Le vendredi 25 à 13:51, atilla ontas a écrit :
You see, how variables reversed? So if you, developers, mind to and if it is possible use only one %s in a string it will be much appreciated.
The strings that you find in a .po file are (almost always) fed to printf(3). In such a string, the first %s will be replaced with the next argument given to printf(3) (in the example you give, that would be a command name), the second %s with the following argument, and so on. However, instead of %s, you may use %m$s in order to point to the m-th following argument. This means the following string:
"Try using the %s environment by\nplacing %s in the %s array in %s." ┃ ┗▶ could have been %2$s ┗▶ could have been written %1$s
Could be translated as:
"%4$s dosyası içindeki %3$s satırına %2$s değerini yerleştirerek %1$s ortamını kullanmayı deneyin."
(My apologies if I got the Turkish sentence wrong, but you get the idea.)
Also, if you, developers, mind to add comments what is %s (a command, an application, what??) it will be great help to translators. Greetings...
When I did translations, I used po-mode in emacs that could jump me from a string to the corresponding source code. That would give quite a lot more context. I'm sure your $EDITOR for po file has a similar feature. -- Fred