Re: i18n suggestion

tis 2003-05-06 klockan 22.09 skrev Funda Wang:
> I'm a Chinese translator of mrproject. At the time doing translation
> work, I found it that there must be some ways to get it better.
> 
> Following lines have been found in mrproject.pot:
> 
> 	msgid "Q%d"
> 	msgid "Qtr %d"
> 	msgid "%d, Qtr %d"
> 
> 	msgid "H%d"
> 	msgid "%04d, H%d"
> 
> Although I know very much what these items mean, but it doesn't look
> very well with Chinese.
> 
> At first, there are 4 quarters in a year, am i right? I'm not sure it is
> true in every country. We usually call Q1 as "The First quarter" in
> Chinese, Q2 as "The Second quarter", H1 as "The First half year", and so
> on. It would be better that list 4 quarters and 2 halfyears directly in
> the source. That is:
> 
> 	msgid "Q1"
> 	msgid "Q2"
> 	msgid "Q3"
> 	msgid "Q4"
> 	msgid "Qtr 1"
> 	msgid "Qtr 2"
> 	msgid "Qtr 3"
> 	msgid "Qtr 4"
> 	#. %d, Qtr 1
> 	msgid "%d, %s"
> 
> 	msgid "H1"
> 	msgid "H2"
> 	#. 2003, H1
> 	msgid "%04d, %s"
> 
> Is it possible? 

I have to say I don't really understand what you mean... 

Richard