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Translation Team/i18n Best Practices (view source)
Revision as of 12:00, 18 January 2013
, 12:00, 18 January 2013Add coding header tip
== Use plural forms ==
== Use plural forms ==
Do not assume that all languages have a concept of singular and plural like English. Some languages might have a single form, and some have more than two form. Use [http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/gettext/Plural-forms.html plural forms] via ''ngettext()'' in these cases. Example (from sugar-update-control):
Do not assume that all languages have a concept of singular and plural like English. Some languages might have a single form, and some have more than two form. Use [http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#Plural-forms plural forms] via ''ngettext()'' in these cases. Example (from sugar-update-control):
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header = gettext.ngettext("You can install %s update",
header = gettext.ngettext("You can install %s update",
Make a request by filing a ticket on bugs.sugarlabs.org. You should set Type to 'task' and Component to 'localization'. Please include a link to the project page on git.sugarlabs.org (or whatever other repository you use).
Make a request by filing a ticket on bugs.sugarlabs.org. You should set Type to 'task' and Component to 'localization'. Please include a link to the project page on git.sugarlabs.org (or whatever other repository you use).
== Specify the character encoding if necessary ==
Python files with non-ascii characters or declaring strings representing them, need to add the following line to the header.
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
If not, the pootle helper won't generate the pot/po files.