Translations

[Tim Wootton]

The Subsurface CodingStyle file provides this guidance for these situations:

  Only the first word of multi-word text strings should be captalized unless
  a word would normally be capitalized mid-sentance, like Africa. This
applies
  to all UI text including menus, menu items, tool-tips, button text and
label
  text etc. e.g. "Check for updates" rather than "Check for Updates".

  Abbreviations should end with a period, e.g. "temp." not "temp" for
  temperature.

There doesn't seem to be a view on the full-stop (period) at the and of
a sentence, perhaps we should add one, as the key here IMHO is consistency.

cheers,

Tim


On 20/02/17 12:56, Stefan Fuchs wrote:
>
> Hello Martin,
>
> Am 14.02.2017 um 11:47 schrieb Martin Měřinský:
>> Inconsistencies in source strings:
>> ----------------------------------
>> Send the dive data to divelogs.de website. (Ends with dot.)
>> Send the dive data to dive-share.appspot.com website (No dot at the
>> end.)
>>
>> Temp
>> Temp.
>> Max. depth
>> max depth
>> Please, either use with dot or don't.
>>
>> Dive Details
>> Dive details
>> Different letter case.
>>
>> Dive Master
>> Divemaster
>>
>> maxdepth
>> max depth
>>
>> [...]
> I like your approach and even would like to add one more category of
> items including a few examples:
> For many strings it is also important to decide if the first word
> should start with an upper case or lower case letter.
> Example:
> The information box in the profile.
> From the code of profile.c:
>
>         put_format(b, translate("gettextFromC", "Calculated ceiling
> %.0f%s\n"), depthvalue, depth_unit);
>
>                     put_format(b, translate("gettextFromC", "Tissue
> %.0fmin: %.1f%s\n"), buehlmann_N2_t_halflife[k], depthvalue, depth_unit);
>  
>         put_format(b, translate("gettextFromC", "heartbeat: %d\n"),
> entry->heartbeat);
>
>         put_format(b, translate("gettextFromC", "bearing: %d\n"),
> entry->bearing);
>
>         put_format(b, translate("gettextFromC", "mean depth to here
> %.1f%s\n"), depthvalue, depth_unit);
>
> "Calculated", "Tissue" vs. "heartbeat", "bearing", "mean"
>
> Even in English language having everything upper case would look
> better and be more correct there!?
>
> Best regards
> Stefan
>
> -- 
>
> Stefan Fuchs
> E-Mail: sfuchs at gmx.de <mailto:sfuchs at gmx.de>
>
>
>
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