Localisation, parameter issues

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Hi Steve,

I just took a shot at translating the latest resource changes. If I understand it correctly, you are passing parameters like "file" or "folder" into strings like "Keep the %s from the repository".

The problem for translators now is that the article should be part of the parameter, because file and folder have (at least in German) different articles :)

Probably the same for strings like: "The last %s operation tried to %s the %s '%s', but it already exists unversioned locally." and the parameters "add", "delete", ....

In this case I see two problems:
1) I can not be sure, but I assume that I have to translate "add" with "hinzuzufügen" instead of "hinzufügen" to get a meaningful sentence.

And (bigger problem):
2) To get a proper German sentence again, some of the parameters should be swapped

English: The last %s operation tried to #add# the #files# '%s'
German: Die letzte %s Operation versuchte #hinzu(zu)fügen# die #Dateien# '%s'

- From a Germans point of view with a little sense for language, this is unacceptable. Is there a chance to number the parameters and pick the correct one in the formatting string, like:

English: "The last %0:s operation tried to %1:s the %2:s '%3:s'"
German: "Die letzte %0:s Operation versuchte %2:s die %1:s '%3:s'"

This would allow the translator to put the noun and verb in the correct order again in German and other languages.

At least in Delphi I can do (and use) this regularly for my localisation.

Cheers
- - Lübbe

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