Re: Translation of tree conflict messages is problematic

On 15.04.2010 10:19, Lübbe Onken wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> the current messages used to display tree conflicts are a little
> problematic to translate.
> They are all composed of two parts:
> A: "The last xxx operation tried to yyy the zzz '%s'"
> B: "%s, but it uuu locally"
>
> Where part A gets inserted into the placeholder %s of part B.
>
> xxx = the subversion operation
> yyy = what it tried to do
> zzz '%s' = the object (file/folder) and its name
> uuu = the local action causing the conflict
>
> The problem now is that file/folder are of neutral gender in English,
> but have a different gender in German. No matter which gender I choose
> to translate part B, I'm wrong in 50% of the cases.

But that's only on the 1.6.x branch. On trunk, there's no placeholder
for the object (file/folder) anymore.

Or did I miss something here?

Stefan

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