[Aptitude-devel] Gettext and split phrases (Re: Remove dead code, document one method and ...)

[Daniel Hartwig]

On 1 February 2014 22:55, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
<manuel.montezelo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2014-01-31 Daniel Hartwig <mandyke at gmail.com>:
>> Hi Manuel
>>
>> [commit 6ae2d97 on master]
>>
>>> -    const std::string short_description =
>>> -      (boost::format("Changelog of %s") % ver.ParentPkg().Name()).str();
>>> +    const std::string short_description = _("Changelog of") + std::string(" ") + info->get_display_name();
>>
>> Nice catch, that this was not being translated before.
>>
>> Note that for proper translation, the string passed to gettext must
>> contain as much of a complete sentence or phrase as possible.  In this
>> case, it should be _("Changelog of %s"), to allow for changes to word
>> order or punctuation etc. as may be appropriate for each language.
>>
>> [...]
>
> Thanks for the pointers, I think that it's OK now.
>
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=aptitude/aptitude.git;a=commitdiff;h=971066b27870dca84145f6b36ce2d1b07f8234b3
>

Nice.