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author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2008-08-07 00:32:18 +0400 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2008-08-07 00:32:18 +0400 |
commit | d96ca27e1089a190139591ac365873f26bffcf5c (patch) | |
tree | 93782a459cfd8029268e5f09747b504915ac275c /git-gui/po/README | |
parent | 847d10f56d7853cd0e139a7c2e6ad0ad2de5c464 (diff) | |
parent | 9534c9fb31dfe4c5c367042c97a160c42b1eefdf (diff) |
Merge git://repo.or.cz/git-gui
* git://repo.or.cz/git-gui:
git-gui: Adapt discovery of oguilib to execdir 'libexec/git-core'
git-gui: add a part about format strings in po/README
git-gui: update po/it.po
git-gui: update Japanese translation
git-gui: Update swedish translation.
git-gui: Update git-gui.pot for 0.11 nearing release
git-gui: Update German translation
Diffstat (limited to 'git-gui/po/README')
-rw-r--r-- | git-gui/po/README | 17 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/git-gui/po/README b/git-gui/po/README index 5e77a7d7d2..595bbf5dee 100644 --- a/git-gui/po/README +++ b/git-gui/po/README @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ matching msgid lines. A few tips: "printf()"-like functions. Make sure "%s", "%d", and "%%" in your translated messages match the original. - When you have to change the order of words, you can add "<number>\$" + When you have to change the order of words, you can add "<number>$" between '%' and the conversion ('s', 'd', etc.) to say "<number>-th parameter to the format string is used at this point". For example, if the original message is like this: @@ -111,12 +111,17 @@ matching msgid lines. A few tips: and if for whatever reason your translation needs to say weight first and then length, you can say something like: - "WEIGHT IS %2\$d, LENGTH IS %1\$d" + "WEIGHT IS %2$d, LENGTH IS %1$d" - The reason you need a backslash before dollar sign is because - this is a double quoted string in Tcl language, and without - it the letter introduces a variable interpolation, which you - do not want here. + A format specification with a '*' (asterisk) refers to *two* arguments + instead of one, hence the succeeding argument number is two higher + instead of one. So, a message like this + + "%s ... %*i of %*i %s (%3i%%)" + + is equivalent to + + "%1$s ... %2$*i of %4$*i %6$s (%7$3i%%)" - A long message can be split across multiple lines by ending the string with a double quote, and starting another string on the next |